Responsibilities of the candidate will include: Serving as the IRC representative in-charge of the Rutuna Field Office (approx. 30 national staff); and Supervising needs assessments, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all projects in Rutuna Province (currently water/sanitation, hygiene promotion, and the Roll Back Malaria plan).

Tertiary education in Zimbabwe was at one time ranked among the best in Africa, but the achievements of the country’s education system are threatened by growing dissatisfaction and underfunding. Thousands of students who completed undergraduate studies at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), the country’s oldest institution for higher learning, failed to graduate last month when lecturers complaining of poor working conditions and low salaries resorted to industrial action.

News24 reports that the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives has awarded R250 000 to the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). The grant will be used to train health care and community workers in the Eastern Cape in preparation for the mother-to-child transmission prevention programme and the antiretroviral therapy rollout.

A group of six children and youth who were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda have returned from Sudan, UNICEF Uganda has announced. The ages of the members of the group range from 12 to 22 years. All were abducted from Uganda as children, between 1997 and 2002. After arrival at Entebbe, the group was taken to reception centres in Gulu where they will be provided with psycho-social counselling by the Gulu Support for Children Organisation (GUSCO) and World Vision.