A key challenge for this position in the next few years will be to ensure the sustainability of our current work through capacity building of local NGOs and associations, through ongoing development of policy level partnerships and ensuring that lessons learned within Rwanda are shared with other SC UK programmes.

Separatist rebels in the oil-rich Cabinda enclave on Wednesday accused the Angolan government of stepping up a military offensive, and warned they would not participate in peace talks until hostilities ended.

Provide managerial and technical support to the TTS project, in support of the Southern Africa Initiative on Youth and HIV/AIDS (SAY). Propose plans, budget and methods for handling communications strategy for TTS including promotion of special events. Maintain programmatic oversight on TTS staff activities.

The UN children's agency UNICEF and the Mozambican government are set to sign a US $86 million cooperation agreement aimed at fundamentally improving the living conditions and prospects of children in the country, UNICEF said in a statement released on Monday.

A top director in the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department has been reinstated to his plum R375 000-a-year job - despite being found guilty in an internal inquiry of mismanaging more than R2.5-million of taxpayers' money.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released a report on the challenges facing journalists in Sierre Leone. Journalists, says the report, have begun to address problems of corruption in the media and other unethical practices that undermined press credibility.

The authorities in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland have issued orders banning two local correspondents from reporting to the BBC's Somali service, a senior official in the region's commercial capital, Bosaso, told IRIN on Monday.

NDI seeks a resident director to manage and develop its program in Burundi. The goal of the anticipated 12-month program is to strengthen the capacity of Burundi's transitional legislature, in particular its ability to implement key provisions of the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement (APRA).

The incumbent will research and collect information pertaining to human rights matters from a variety of data sources; keep abreast of issues/events and provide up-to-date information; assist in the analysis of information, to include the impact on the countries and thematic mandates on the human rights situation in assigned area.

The IFES-Nigeria project involves developing and conducting a variety of capacity building programs for the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria in its preparation for the April 2003 State and Federal Elections.

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