uganda: Cabinet Presents Proposals to Constitutional Review Commission

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Sep 25, 2003

The Cabinet has presented its proposals to the Constitutional Review Commission, which among others, seek to give the President more powers, open up political space and create regional governments. The proposals seek to amend 88 articles of the Constitution, five schedules, one national objective and create 14 new articles.

Uganda

africa: the Real Progress Report on HIPC

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Sep 25, 2003

The Real Progress Report on HIPC, launched just in advance of the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Dubai, provides policy makers, politicians, NGOs, campaigners and debtor governments with real information about the progress of the HIPC initiative. Intended as a shadow version of the official HIPC Status of Implementation Report, it answers the questions that the official HIPC reports do not: How much debt has actually been cancelled? Are creditors really sharing the burden of debt relie...read more

south africa: call for mbeki to apologise

Contributor
Oct 02, 2003

Shock and outrage has erupted across South Africa in response to President Thabo Mbeki's denial that he knew anyone with Aids. "Personally, I don't know anybody who has died of Aids," Mbeki told the New York Times while at the United Nations General Assembly last week. Asked if he knew anyone who was HIV-positive, he responded, "I really, honestly, don't know."
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* Government clarifies statement
http://allafrica.com/stories/200309300400.html

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NIGERIA: Police return 116 trafficked children to Benin

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Oct 02, 2003

Nigeria's police authorities on Friday returned 116 children brought into the country to provide cheap labour to the neighbouring Benin Republic, where they are believed to have originated, officials said. Nigeria's police chief, Tafa Balogun, also handed over five suspected traffickers who were said to be specialised in smuggling children from Benin into Nigeria, in a ceremony at Seme, the main border crossing point between the two countries.

Nigeria

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation

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Oct 02, 2003

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation would like to announce that it has extended the World Assembly call for proposals deadline for workshops/presentations or training sessions proposals to 30 October, 2003. The World Assembly will take place from 21-25 March, 2004 in Gaborone, Botswana. The main theme of the global gathering will be "Acting together for a just world". There will be four main sub-themes at the World Assembly: (1) civic justice (fuelling civic energy); (2) economi...read more

Giving to the poor crucial for turning the tide against poverty, says Southern African Grantmakers Association

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Sep 25, 2003

Business Day reports that the Southern African Grantmakers Association's (SAGA) executive director Colleen du Toit believes that giving to the poor and sound implementation of development programmes are key to alleviating poverty in Southern Africa. This comment comes after the recent SAGA conference, which looked at new ways of doing grantmaking in the region. While there is a need to decrease donor dependency, donor funding still remains essential for many NPOs.

zambia: Reporter harassed

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Sep 25, 2003

Four prison wardens confronted Alfarson Sinalungu, a freelance journalist who writes for the privately-owned "Post" newspaper, on September 17, over an interview he conducted with convicted coup plotter Captain Jack Chiti. Chiti, who is on death row, is currently in Kabwe general hospital. Sinalungu told MISA-Zambia that the wardens accosted him at the hospital and accused him of being the author of a profile of Chiti that appeared in the 7 September edition of "The Sunday Post". In the art...read more

Zambia

Futures for Southern Africa: A report on a symposium held in Windhoek

Steve Kibble
Sep 25, 2003

It is almost ten years since the end of apartheid - a moment that appeared to promise peace and prosperity for the future of the region. It is also roughly a decade after several other major regional political events - Namibian independence, Mozambique's first multi-party election, Zambia's first non-liberation movement government, the Lusaka Accord for (temporary) peace in Angola. The above organisations held a symposium in southern Africa on the grounds that it was an appropriate time for...read more

Namibia

ghana: COORDINATOR

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Sep 25, 2003

The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an international human rights non-governmental organisation (NGO), with a particular focus on the human right to adequate housing and preventing forced evictions. COHRE has regional programmes in Asia & the Pacific, the Americas and Africa, along with thematic programmes on housing and property restitution; women and housing rights; the right to adequate water; and litigation. COHRE was established in 1994, and is now recognised as an ...read more

Ghana

uganda: executive director

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Sep 25, 2003

Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), is a women's organisation established to facilitate follow-up of the implementation of the Global and African Platforms for Action for the advancement of women within the Eastern African Sub-region. EASSI is looking to fill the vacant position of executive director. It focuses on the enhancement of gender equity and social justice through networking, research, capacity building and advocacy for women.

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