Africa: Call for Papers - The New Path: African Forum for Intellectual Thought

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Sep 13, 2007

The New Path: African Forum for Intellectual Thought is published quarterly by the African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF) and provides a forum for innovative thinking about our common future and about how we need to tackle the most intractable problems facing Africa today – focusing on Eastern Africa. The editor invites your articles (opinion and analysis) for the October 2007 edition. Please send your articles of not more than five thousand (5,000) words to: [email]read more

Botswana: IOM to open centre for undocumented Zim migrants

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Sep 07, 2007

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is establishing a second reception centre in Zimbabwe to provide a 'soft landing' for undocumented Zimbabwean migrants being deported from neighbouring countries. Last year 38,000 Zimbabweans were repatriated from Botswana to Zimbabwe. Earlier this year President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government requested the IOM to assist in setting up the country's second reception centre, in the Matabeleland town of Plumtree near the Botswana border, to ...read more

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Nigeria: Schools to benefit from Universal Service Provision Fund

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Sep 07, 2007

A total of 109 primary and secondary schools have been selected as beneficiaries of the first phase of the 'Schools, University Access Programme to Digital Lifestyle' project of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) an initiative of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The projects to be completed in the next six months would include equipping the benefiting schools with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools.

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Somalia: Skipping school to attend school - children take charge of their education

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Aug 31, 2007

It is 10.30am on a sunny Thursday morning in the self-declared republic of Somaliland’s capital and 15-year-old Mohamed Yusuf is skipping school. Mohamed is not playing soccer or smoking cigarettes or shining shoes for a few extra shillings; instead he and a half-dozen of his classmates have trekked 5km through the dusty streets of Hargeisa to attend a session of Biyo Dhacay primary school’s Child-to-Child (CTC) club.

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Finance Training for NGOs

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Sep 05, 2007

Mango training is delivering two of our most popular courses for NGO managers in Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Botswana during October and November 2007.

A few bursaries are available to poorly-resourced local NGOs. We are also able to offer more bursaries for the Botswana course this year due to a generous supporter. - more details from

All of Mango’s course can now be booked online. Please go to read more

Africa: The State of Philanthropy in Africa - Call for Abstracts

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Sep 06, 2007

TrustAfrica is pleased to announce the first in a series of publications on the state of philanthropy in Africa. We are now soliciting abstracts of papers that can help measure the state of philanthropy in Africa. Successful abstracts will be developed into book chapters that will be published in the beginning of 2008. Abstracts (250 words maximum) are due no later than September 15, 2007.

Kenya: Report reveals scale of corruption

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Sep 06, 2007

The scale of corruption carried out in Kenya by family and associates of its former president, Daniel Arap Moi, has been revealed in a secret report which alleges that more than £1 billion of government money was stolen during his 24-year rule. Mr Moi’s regime, which came to an end in 2002, has long been regarded as one of Africa’s most corrupt, but the extent of the graft has never been exposed in so much detail.

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South Africa: Municipal protests: A call for support

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Sep 06, 2007

Over the past 2 months, as communities all over the Gauteng again take to streets in protest against the pace and neoliberal frame of service delivery, there has been an unprecedented escalation of state violence, repression and the criminalisation of protest. While the Anti-Privatization Forum (APF) has managed to provide activists with legal and jail support, this has been severely circumscribed by the limited financial means of the organisation.

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Botswana: Secondary schools to be networked

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Aug 30, 2007

About 100 secondary schools will at the beginning of next term be linked together through the computerised school Internet connectivity project. This was revealed through a Savingram circulated to all the 235 secondary schools Head teachers in the country.

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Sudan: Summary expulsion of migrants from Israel

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Aug 30, 2007

Israel should stop summarily expelling Sudanese nationals who enter the country illegally from Egypt and reinstate its policy of allowing them to remain in Israel pending refugee status determination, Human Rights Watch has said . Egypt's official refusal to accept them combined with recent allegations of mistreatment by border guards suggests that Sudanese returnees are likely to be treated harshly and with no guarantees that they would not be returned to persecution.

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