Angola's children are finally beginning to enjoy the fruits of the end of the country's long civil war with back-to-school-campaigns, free birth registration and a decrease in malnutrition rates.
Somali communities have reacted with shock and dismay over a decision to close the Saudi-based Al-Haramayn aid agency after the US government accused it of links with terrorists. The Islamic agency closed its doors in Somalia on Saturday after the Saudi government ordered its international staff to leave the country, Nur Alasow, a Somali employee of the agency told IRIN.
The Organisation for Educational Resources and Technological Training (ORT) is seeking candidates for two potential long-term positions with expertise in anti-trafficking issues, child labour, education, and project management.
Lecturers are required to teach the following courses at the Academy of Screen arts - a new and exciting Film School in Ghana: Acting, Directing, Presentation and Anchoring, Set Design, Costume and Make-up, Animation, Pre-production, Post production, Music and Dance, Voice and Diction, Film History.
As of 30 April 2003, the Ugandan Ministry of Public Health has reported a total of 277 cases of cholera with 35 deaths in March and April 2003 in Bundibugyo district, with most cases located along the Semliki and Lamia rivers.
Wole Soyinka provides a foreword to this visceral account of a prominent newspaper editor's arrest, interrogation and imprisonment between 1995 and 1998 under the regime of Nigeria's military dictator Sanni Abacha. The author captures the loneliness and betrayal of political imprisonment and calls for collective responsibility to guard against tyrannical rule.
Dispatch Online reports that due to R20 000 and R25 000 donations from the FNB Foundation and the Joan St Leger Lindbergh Charity Fund respectively the Border Community Chest this month recorded its best fundraising result ever.
The Greater Johannesburg Welfare, Social Service and Development Forum (GJWSSDF) hosted a meeting on the funding crisis in the welfare sector on Thursday 8 May. The meeting was a follow up to a meeting held in October of last year. The meeting attracted more than 80 people but was marred by the last minute cancellation by key speakers from the Department of Social Development and the National Development Agency (NDA).
