Kenyan Writers – Call for Submissions (deadline approaching)

Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. is looking for new (and preferably not published elsewhere) short stories by Kenyan authors to be published in January 2008. Translated work from any of the Kenyan languages into English is particularly welcome. If you haven't already, please send your short story, accompanied by a brief author biography, to the anthology editor, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, at [email][email protected] with the subject heading, Kenya - new short fiction. The submission deadline is July 15, 2007. The file should be attached, in MS Word and not more than 20 pages double-spaced.

The Programme Specialist is responsible for: Supporting implementation of projects in the Rule of Law and Security (ROLS) Programme area; Ensuring high quality monitoring and evaluation, reporting and oversight/quality control for the ROLS programme area; Coordinating the monitoring of progress on Country Programme outcomes and outputs; Liaising and strengthening partnerships with other UN agencies, government officials, technical advisors and experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and Somali civil society; Providing policy and programmatic advice and facilitating knowledge management. Closing Date: 27 June 2007

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites the urgent attention of the membership of the Council, the wider African and global social research community, all believers in the democratic ideal, and all persons of good will to the serious developments in Ethiopia bearing on the lives of 38 persons, all citizens of Ethiopia, who had been arrested in the aftermath of the street protests that greeted the manipulation by the authorities of the results of the 2005 general elections. The 38 are part of a total of 111 persons – including 25 persons who had already been forced into exile – initially charged with an assortment of offences arising from the elections.