Africa: Senior Program Officer, Africa - AJWS

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May 17, 2007

AJWS is seeking to recruit a Senior Program Officer. The Senior Program Officer for Africa will be based in New York and responsible for shaping and implementing the strategic direction of AJWS’ grant making in Africa and directly managing grants in Southern Africa. S/he will represent AJWS’ Africa program at international forums as well as AJWS Board and donor meetings.

Tunisia: Coastguard patrol saves 35 illegal immigrants

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May 16, 2007

Magharebia news reports that a Tunisian coastguard boat rescued 35 illegal African migrants trying to reach Italy from Libya. The rescue operation took place near the coast of Sfax on Friday, when a broken motor caused a small boat carrying sub-Saharan immigrants from Libya towards the Italian island of Lampedusa to drift off course.

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William Wolmer: From Wilderness Vision to Farm Invasions

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May 16, 2007

African people were written out of the landscape in many parts of colonial Zimbabwe. The uses, perceptions and experiences of this landscape by African people have been ignored. Land reform has failed to take account of the way the landscape is bound up with identity through its embodiment of ancestral spirits and function as a repository of social memories.
ISBN: 978-0-85255-436-4, 320pp. publ. 2007 £17.95

Africa: Education Project Manager, ActionAid

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May 16, 2007

Located in either Tanzania, Nigeria or Kenya and reporting to the International Head of Education, and also accountable to the Country Director of the host country, the Education Project Manager will be expected to manage a 5 year Comic Relief funded project on Transforming Education for Girls that will be implemented in Tanzania and Nigeria. Application deadline is May 24 2007.

Liberia: Big boost for Liberian education

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May 17, 2007

Liberian authorities have been taking opportunity to provide education to thousands of its children denied by several years of civil war. Chief Executive Officers of RLJ Companies and G-III Apparel Group, Robert L. Johnson and Morris Goldfarb, pumped $100,000 into the Liberian Education Trust this month, a charitable trust created to harness American support for the restoration of basic education in post-civil war Liberia.

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Front Line Grants for Human Rights Defenders at risk

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May 17, 2007

Grants are given to organisations working for human rights as well as to individual human rights defenders at risk and are for amounts up to a maximum of €6,000. As part of this program, we welcome grant applications for security and protection of LGBT rights defenders.

New titles from James Currey Publishers

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May 16, 2007

Pambazuka News is pleased to be bringing to you selected new title information from James Currey Publishers, the leading Oxford-based publishers of academic books on Africa.

James Currey Publishers works closely on co-publication with African publishers as well as university and academic presses in the US.

Each week, we shall bring you information from the African Issues series; books on subjects such as literary criticism, film, theatre and slavery. Further details of most ti...read more

New titles from James Currey Publishers

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May 11, 2007

This study is set in the context of Ghana's socioeconomic realities, in an economy dominated by structural adjustment programming, fiscal restraint and Ghana's recent status as a Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC). Ghana's public universities have faced competition from offshore universities as well as from non-university centres of knowledge production and research.
ISBN: 9780852551714, 192pp, publ. May 2007, £14.95

Gambia: Gambian circumcisors publicly abandon knives

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May 11, 2007

A sizable number of Gambian female circumcisors publicly abandoned their knives in front of a crowd at the Independence Stadium in Bakau, 12 km from the capital Banjul, swearing that they would no longer use their knives to circumcise or mutilate the genitals of young girls. The move will instil hopes among national and international activists campaigning against the age-old culture of female genital mutilation otherwise known as FGM.

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Ethiopia: ICPAT Steering Committee Meeting

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May 11, 2007

The meeting of the IGAD Capacity Building Programme Against Terrorism (ICPAT) will be chaired by IGAD and is to be attended by IGAD member states and the seven donor countries. The Steering Committee guides the activities of the programme and is expected to agree on activities for the next six months. For enquiries, please contact Amb Hiruyi Amanuel, ISS ICPAT Office, Addis Ababa, Tel: +251 11 372 4720/2, Fax: + 251 11 372 4719, E-mail: [email]ham[email protected]

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