This UNESCO initiative aims to gauge the current state of knowledge among those involved in open and distance learning (ODL) in developing countries in order to determine the best way to support efforts in that area.
Observer’s reporter and head of Provincial Desk, Demba Sambou, has been arrested by the National Intelligence Agency officers at Bansang, while attending a presentation ceremony at the Bansang Hospital. In a telephone interview with our reporter, Mr Sambou said an NIA officer from Bansang found him at the Bansang Hospital and picked him up for interrogation at the NIA office.
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Southern Africa and the African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC) invite you to attend a morning discussion on Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) in South Africa.
Based on the success of its training courses in 2001, Southern Hemisphere is offering training for development practitioners in negotiation skills, monitoring and evaluation for development projects, and human rights indicators.
On Monday 11 March 2002, the libel case pursued by businessman Nyimpinhe Chissano, son of Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, against journalist Marcelo Mosse and the now defunct newssheet "Metical", was postponed. This is the fifth time that the case has been postponed.
A People Daily editor, Mr Mukalo wa Kwayera, has been arrested by police. Kwayera was arrested minutes after appearing in court where he and a former People editor, Mr Vitalis Musebe, are facing charges of publishing information from the Armed Forces.
Zimbabwe's trade unions have called for a three-day general strike against President Robert Mugabe's government while Africa's two most powerful leaders appeared to make little headway in resolving the country's pressing political and economic crisis.
The government of Zimbabwe should immediately and unconditionally release more than 1400 people, most of them polling agents and civil society election observers, who were arrested nationwide, mostly on Monday 11 March, and detained in police custody following last weekend's presidential election, says Amnesty International.
