We would like to thank all of you for the overwhelming response to our call for abstracts for the 3rd MIM Pan-African Conference to be held in Arusha, Tanzania, 18-22 November 2002. The Conference titled "Global Advances in Malaria Research: Developing Evidence-Based Policy and Control" aims to promote the exchange of scientific ideas and will focus on scientific progress and potential in malaria research, with special emphasis given to the linkage between malaria research and its contributi...read more

The winner of the best short film at the Pan African Film festival has been awarded to Sechaba Morojele for Ubuntu's Wounds, one of the funded projects of The National Film & Video Foundation (NFVF). Morojele was already well known in the South African film industry as an actor and writer (Tsaba Tsaba in Going Up and Mr. Mahlatsi in Yizo Yizo and wrote scripts for Kelebone, Soul City, Generations and Isidingo) when he decided to enrol for a two-year degree in directing at the American Fi...read more

The first continent-wide mental health conference opened on Monday in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, attended by more than 150 delegates, Le Soleil newspaper reported.

Sakhela Buhlungu and Eddie Webster report on how the 'war against terriorism' sparked a controversial and potentially divisive debate during the sixth congress of the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (Sigtur) held in Seoul, South Korea.

The hijacking of the World Conference on racism has led to the reuniting of the Black world on issues that affect the Black world. Racism and invasions of Blacks lands in Sudan and Mauritania, Indonesia and West Papua is one of the issues that affects the Black world, even though some of the participants in the system of sanctified racism in North East Africa are Black African, who would be reminded of who the are in Germany, the U.S., Libya, Israel, Russia, China, Latin America, India, Europ...read more

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