tanzania: Math and Science Teacher - Iringa International School

Contributor
May 15, 2003

The Iringa International School is searching for a Senior School Maths and Science teacher. The school is small and somewhat limited in resources, but the diverse student body is serious about learning from an intelligent, curious, and qualified Maths and Science Teacher.

Tanzania

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Role of Civil Society in the Challenges Confronting Africa

Contributor
May 15, 2003

This conference will provide a forum for debate on the extent to which rhetoric, practice, activism and social engagement within Africa's civil society have yielded any outcome as far as political emancipation and people's livelihood are concerned. Beyond exploring the term civil society and its application to African historical and contemporary conditions, this conference is chiefly interested in the everyday processes of interaction through which civil society organisations and individual ...read more

Congo-Kinshasa: British Government Gives US $900,000 in Medical Aid

Contributor
May 15, 2003

The British ambassador in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Jim Atkinson, said on Tuesday that Britain would give US $900,000 in December for health projects in the DRC. The funding, part of a $27 million bilateral aid programme for the DRC, would be used to provide medicine and medical equipment, to rebuild health facilities and train medical personnel, Atkinson said.

Democratic Republic of Congo

BURUNDI: Winning back Burundi's child soldiers

Contributor
May 15, 2003

In his December 2002 report to the UN Security Council, Secretary-General Kofi Annan identified Burundi as one of five conflict-ridden countries across the world where children were being used as soldiers. However, while most of the armed groups named by Annan were opposition factions, his UN report pointed a finger at the Burundian government for abusing children by sending them to the frontline.

Burundi

south africa: FXI releases report on the state of censorship

Contributor
May 15, 2003

The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) has just released a report on the activities of its Anti-Censorship Programme (ACP), which has been in existence since June 2002. A decision was taken to establish the Programme last year, after the FXI experienced a sharp rise in the number of censorship cases it was being called on to handle. In the report, the FXI notes that its decision to establish the Programme has been vindicated, as censorship is clearly increasing in South Africa.

South Africa

southern africa: CHILDREN FIRST IN THE POVERTY BATTLE

Contributor
May 08, 2003

This document produced by the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN)
argues that a more prominent role should be given to child poverty issues in the southern African PRSP process. The review points to a significant role for child poverty research and advocacy in the implementation, monitoring and review of the Southern African PRSP processes. Child advocacy organisations and child rights actors may play a valuable role in a variety of ways, the document suggests.

namibia: 22 villages submerged by flooding, reports The Namibian

Contributor
May 15, 2003

Red Cross officials have described the situation in eastern Caprivi as "very serious" after floods from the raging Zambezi River submerged settlements and schools. "The floods have so far claimed two lives," they said. The Emergency Management Unit dispatched a team to assess the floods. Humanitarian agents from the Namibia Red Cross Society, assisted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from Botswana, are also in the area assessing the situation.

Namibia

drc: DRC casts out its 'child witches'

Contributor
May 15, 2003

Witches haunt Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo's violent capital. With pinched faces, bloodshot eyes and swollen bellies, they are horrifying to see; plaguing the city's streets by day, and retiring when nights falls to stinking graveyards and typhus alleys. And all of them are children. Olivier's plight is all too common in war-ravaged Congo. According to Save the Children, of Kinshasa's estimated 30 000 street-children, virtually all have been abandoned by their families, havi...read more

Democratic Republic of Congo

africa: African distance learning: reaching parts other education systems cannot

Contributor
May 15, 2003

Can non-formal radio and correspondence courses provide basic education to Africans bypassed by the school system? What are the key constraints, problems and success factors in the field of distance education in Africa? Could greater commitment of resources to distance education plug discriminatory gaps in African formal education systems?

africa: Secondary schools: second-class schooling? Reforming education for rural girls

Contributor
May 15, 2003

Does secondary education meet the needs of girls in rural Africa? What is being done to make curricula more relevant to girls and to reduce the excessive focus on examinations? Why have official statements on the shortcomings of curricula and examinations not been translated into policy changes?

Pages