A new development magazine is seeking writers and contributors. The magazine is being launched by the Black Star Media Services, a new media company based in Accra, Ghana. The magazine, called the Ghanaian oracle will be launched in October 2005. The Ghanaian Oracle is a monthly magazine of news analysis, information, campaigning and culture. It provides a forum for people of progressive orientation and thinking to debate ideas, opinions and action relevant to the development and progress o...read more

Yours is a great contribution to our cause of Pan-Afrikan Liberation. We would encourage more focus upon the increasingly powerful grassroots struggle throughout the continent and diaspora of Afrika on Pan-Afrikan Reparations for Global Justice. It is also imperative to begin to shift away from mere radical academic descriptions of the Afrikan and global situations in order to highlight more of the escalating grassroots battles against the neocolonialist order of the imperialist domination of...read more

South African opposition parties are calling for an investigation into an oil deal that has allegedly benefited the ruling ANC party. The main opposition Democratic Alliance says it has asked the National Prosecuting Authority to investigate. Another party has filed fraud charges. The ANC and the companies involved have denied wrongdoing, but have not denied the payment was made.

CIVICUS seeks a qualified Events Coordinator to co-ordinate planning, fundraising, programme development and delivery of high-profile international convening events for civil society. The main area of responsibility for this position will be to serve as lead on the CIVICUS World Assembly, but also for other convening events that CIVICUS may organise. This is a management-level position and, for the right candidate, could result in a long-term appointment.

The director would be the management head of all the offices and the principal official representative of the Institute globally. She/he is expected to provide direction to programmes, secure funding, produce reports and assist in the training of new staff on the themes the Institute engages in. The Director will be assisted by a team of professional people in all the centres.

The African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden is planning to start a five-year multidisciplinary and comparative project researching the development paths of a number of Sub-Saharan African and South-East Asian countries since 1950. It therefore invites preliminary applications/statements of interest from:
- 2 senior researchers interested in carrying out a country study of Tanzania or Nigeria
- 1 post-doc researcher interested in participating in the country study of Nigeria
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Global Development Network's (GDN's) Journal Access Portal enables social science researchers based in developing or transitional countries to access a searchable, full-text, online database of more than 120 well-known social science journals, free of charge. Journals in the collection include Demography, World Politics, The Journal of Democracy, Anthropological Quarterly, Technology and Culture, and several regional-studies journals.

Three pan-African research organisations - the Pan-African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG); the Development Policy Management Forum (DPMF) and the African Association of Political Science (AAPS) - hereby announce the holding of a joint Conference on Civil Society, Governance and Integration in Africa in December 2005. The venue of the Conference is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

At the main university in Cote d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, many scholars are more worried about self-defence than self-improvement on a campus dominated by a pro-government student union that uses rape and torture to maintain control. Many students insist that the Students’ Federation of Cote d’Ivoire (FESCI) is nothing more than a government militia, with what some call a “mafia”-like hold on the university.

After a month long strike Burundian primary and secondary school teachers say they will resume work on Monday, but lecturers at Burundi’s public university say they will stay away until their situation changes. "We cannot live on promises," Paul Nkunzimana, the head of the university workers union told reporters in Bujumbura after meeting with the minister of education. The lecturers are demanding three years salary arrears as well as payment for overtime and for supervising students’ thesis.

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