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.

Interfund, a consortium of donors based in Scandinavia and Europe, has launched it's new website. The new website was launched in a fun-filled evening with cultural performances at the Civic Theatre.

The Sekhukhune Educare Project, an NGO specialising in Early Childhood Development based in Jane Furse, Limpopo Province is inviting applications for an Administrator's position.

The JEP believes that young people have the inherent right to contribute to and be nurtured by South African society, which recognises and responds to the full range of needs and gifts of young women and men. The JEP is a national not-for-profit youth development organisation, based in Johannesburg and is seeking a very competent and dedicated Finance Officer.

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has welcomed the results of research done on HIV Benefits in Medical Schemes in 2002 by the Centre for Actuarial Research at the University of Cape Town in association with the TAC. The TAC said the survey showed conclusively that the Medical Schemes Act has been successful in ensuring coverage by medical schemes of people with HIV/AIDS.

Nigeria is potentially Africa's richest country. As the world's sixth largest producer of crude oil, with huge reserves of mineral and agricultural riches and manpower, it should be enjoying some of the highest global living standards. But available indicators point, ironically, to some of the lowest living standards in Africa, for a large majority of Nigeria's 120 million people. And the latest signs are that the situation may be getting worse.

This is the first call for applicants for Adilisha distance learning courses for human rights and advocacy organisations in southern Africa. Fahamu, in association with the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, will be offering courses specifically designed to meet the needs of human rights and advocacy organisations in southern Africa. Developed together with international and regional experts, seven courses will be run in the course of the next 12 months.

Four international organisations have called for a more integrated approach to control the tsetse fly, which transmits sleeping sickness to human beings and causes Nagana in livestock. These diseases, found in 37 sub-Saharan countries, threaten 50 million people and 48 million head of cattle.

Although South Africa must train 30 000 new teachers every year to ensure education for all children, it is training less than half this number.

Two humanitarian organisations and a Mauritanian-born Frenchman, Mohamed Baba, have sued Mauritania's police for allegedly torturing Baba. The complaint was filed in a court in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) has announced.

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