Africa: African universities need affordable and reliable broadband

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Oct 30, 2009

With the click of a mouse, students at Canadian universities find information quickly and download what they need at high speeds. They could not imagine doing research without using the Internet to supplement material from their university library.But it’s a different story in most parts of Africa, where limited library collections make access to the Internet even more critical for research, yet that access is harder to come by.

East Africa: Programme officer - ARTICLE 19

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Oct 30, 2009

ARTICLE19 is recruiting a Programme Officer to further strengthen our presence in Kenya and East Africa. He/she will ensure ongoing projects are delivered in a timely manner and assist in the preparation of future project plans. Educated to degree level, the successful candidate will have extensive experience in policy work, monitoring, advocacy and/or campaigning work in the human rights sector combined with demonstrable project management, implementation and budgeting skills. Familiarity wi...read more

Africa: Countries urged to upgrade education systems

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Oct 30, 2009

The conference on contractual teachers, called Bamako +5, ended in the Malian capital, Bamako, with an appeal to African governments to mobilize more resources to ensure a better quality of their education systems and the training of contractual teachersThe conference in a declaration called on African governments to initiate political dialogue between stakeholders of their educational systems in order to find ways and means to build leadership in schools. They should also allocate at least 2...read more

Horn of Africa: Rising numbers of illegal immigrants enter Somaliland

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Oct 23, 2009

Immigration officials in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have expressed concern over the increase in the number of illegal Ethiopian migrants entering the region, with claims that up to 90 people are arriving daily, against 50 in 2008.

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Review of the IASC products: Invitation to participate

Inter-Agency Standing Committee
Oct 22, 2009

Since 1992, the has issued policy statements, guidelines, and manuals, which help to set the normative frameworks, common standards and good practice for humanitarian community.

The IASC is now reviewing a selection of IASC products to find out:
- Are these products known?
- Are they used?
- How can they be made more accessible?

All humanitarian workers are invited to give their views on IASC products using short on-line surveys, available in English, French a...read more

Ramanbhai Khandubhai Naik

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Oct 17, 2009

RK Naik, who has died aged 81, was the only Indian to have served as a member of the central committee of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu), the resistance movement started in the then Southern Rhodesia in 1961. Ramanbhai Khandubhai Naik was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia; his parents had migrated there from Gujarat, India. When RK was three, his father died during one of his visits to India. The family stayed on and RK completed his matriculation in India before returning to So...read more

Keith Goddard

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Oct 17, 2009

The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum is sad to announce the tragic death of our colleague, Keith Goddard, a champion of human and LGBT rights in Zimbabwe and on the world stage. Sadly, after a short illness, Keith died last night, Friday 9^th October at St Anne's Hospital in Harare. Keith sat on our Board of Directors and was the Director of our member organisation, Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ).

Senegal: Struggling to keep up with Education for All

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Oct 09, 2009

In Diohine, a village of some 3,000 inhabitants in the Fatick region of central Senegal, real progress has been made towards educating all children, in spite of a lack of infrastructure. Diohine has two public primary schools, each serving different neighbourhoods, and a third, privately-run Catholic school that was the first to be established, in 1948.

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Malawi: Pre-school education a luxury

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Oct 09, 2009

Less than a third of Malawi's children attend pre-school; the others will lag behind their peers for their entire school careers. For most Malawian children, school only starts at the age of six - or sometimes even later - when they enter primary school. Pre-schools are mainly privately-owned and regarded as a luxury since most families cannot afford to pay the fees.

Malawi

Nigeria: Opposition decries lawmakers move to grant selves immunity

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Oct 08, 2009

Nigeria's most vocal opposition party, the Action Congress (AC), has condemned the plan by federal legislators to surreptitiously grant themselves and their state counterparts the kind of immunity from arrest and prosecution now being enjoyed by the President, Vice President and the governors of the 36 states. In a statement, issued in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary,Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the bill, which, according to media reports, had scaled second reading in the Hou...read more

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