ICD is looking to recruit two development workers to work with a range of local
NGOs, LNGOs, in Somaliland assisting in building their capacity and specific
skills for community development activities.

As a key outcome of the Africa Regional Conference on the World Summ it on the Information Society (WSIS) held recently in Bamako, Mali, an African Regional Bureau has been established to work with the WSIS secretariat.

Amadou Toumani Toure has been sworn in as the new president of Mali, during a ceremony in the capital Bamako on Saturday attended by 11 other francophone African leaders. Making democratic history, Malians witnessed for the first time one constitutionally elected leader handing power to another duly elected president.

The United Nations appealed again to Kenya on Friday to move some 5,000 Somali refugees out of a ramshackle camp on the border close to where fighting continues on the Somali side. Some 17 refugees, mainly children, have died of disease and malnutrition in the camp in less than a week, according to spokesman Kris Janowski of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Mali's elections earlier this month marked an important milestone, with a democratically-elected president replaced for the first time. Former army general Amadou Toumani Touré won the election, gaining 64 per cent of the vote. He is scheduled to take office on 8 June.