Africa: Deputy Director - AfroBarometer

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May 10, 2007

The Afrobarometer network is looking to fill the position of Deputy Director. The successful candidate will, with other Deputy Directors, support the Executive Director to provide leadership to the Network, within the framework set by the Executive Management Committee. The closing date for applications is 9 May 2007.

Zambia: UNICEF helps 60,000 children receive schooling in wake of floods

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May 10, 2007

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has provided educational kits to jump start the educations of 60,000 school pupils in six flood-ravaged provinces of Zambia. UNICEF has donated 640 ‘school-in-a-box’ kits to the Southern African country’s Ministry of Education. Each box contains such items as flipchart pads, markers, pens, crayons, erasers, exercise books, rulers, pencils, chalk and chalkboards.

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Call for Papers: Critical Perspectives on Travel and Privilege

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May 10, 2007

What compromises do activists, organizers, and those actively pursuing social justice make when travelling internationally? How does the experience of living in a global super power, either "legally" or "not", affect our reception in countries that make up the global south?

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Madagascar: Rough road to recovery

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May 04, 2007

Aid agencies are scrambling to help Madagascar recover from a succession of natural disasters, feeding whole communities cut off from desperately needed food supplies and helping thousands of children get back to school.

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Kenya: 'My education has been affected'

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May 04, 2007

Emmanuel Barasa, 17, is a former primary school pupil from the Mt Elgon district in western Kenya, along the Kenyan-Ugandan border. Barasa, who is now living with relatives in Bungoma, a neighbouring district, spoke to IRIN during a food aid distribution about the effects the fighting has had on his education.

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Sierra Leone: 'An idle mind is a devil’s workshop'

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May 04, 2007

With tens of thousands of youths still out of work more than five years after the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war, many say that prospects for employment will be what they demand of the new leaders they are to elect in July.

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South Africa: KZN lecturer fired

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May 08, 2007

Fazel Khan, a sociology lecturer at the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)has been fired by the university after a 7 month disciplinary process.

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Africa: The case against the IMF on education - A new report

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May 04, 2007

In the world’s poorest countries many children have gone without quality education for far too long, and as a result, the human capital that these countries need to grow and develop sustainably is still in desperately short supply. A new research report by Action Aid on Malawi, Mozambique and Sierra Leone shows that a major factor behind the chronic and severe shortage of teachers is that International Monetary Fund policies have required many poor countries to freeze or curtail teacher recru...read more

Zimbabwe: Executive director

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May 03, 2007

A regional NGO based in Harare seeks to recruit a suitable candidate for the post of executive director. The executive director currently reports directly to the board of trustees and heads the organisation’s secretariat. deadline for applications is 9 May 2007.

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South Africa: 2007 Congress of the African Sociological Association

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Apr 26, 2007

The African Sociological Association announces its 1st Congress which is scheduled to hold in Grahamstown-iRhini, South Africa, from 15-18 July 2007. The African Sociological Association was formally constituted in December 2000 on the back of the 10th General Assembly of CODESRIA, in Kampala, Uganda.

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