Reports from the Comoros Islands say there has been gunfire in the capital, Moroni. The French news agency, AFP, said it lasted for about an hour in the north of the town. It followed days of protest against alleged police corruption and unpaid salaries.

Nigeria has had an upsurge of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the last 10 years, with more than 200,000 people suffering from the disease every year, its health minister was reported as saying last week.

The National Association of People Living With HIV/AIDS (NAPWA SA), a National NGO (with National Office based in Germiston) that coordinates the resources and needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, has a vacancy for an office administrator.

Salary : equivalent to £13,200 per annum
Location : Lusaka, Zambia
Closing Date : 26 Oct 2001
Posted on : 1 Oct 2001

The infoDev Conference Scholarship Fund (iCSF) is now accepting applications for conferences taking place during the period November 2001-June 2002. Organizers of conferences taking place before November may apply, but there is no guarantee that funding can be made available before the conference. Applications will be accepted until funds are exhausted.

Limited sanctions should be imposed to prevent Zimbawean President Robert Mugabe thinking he has free run to intensify repression when the international community is focused on Afghanistan, say observers.

The Daily Mail & Guardian is looking for an editor. The website to the Mail & Guardian newspaper publishes a range of content, much of it analytical coverage of African and global events.

The Rural Legal Trust is an independent entity located in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Its core business is to facilitate, monitor and guide action oriented legal teams comprising of practising advocates, attorneys, candidate attorneys and paralegals to support mainly the poor rural and peri-urban based communities. RLT is seeking to engage the services of an independent and self-motivated full time Senior Administrative Secretary/Administrative Secretary for a fixed period of 3 years starting...read more

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