Lesotho: Teachers Swear to Stage Coup for a New Government

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Sep 27, 2001

Just after handing a torn plastic bag full of two cents coins to the education ministry officials in protest of a two per cent salary increase, a strong call has been made by unionists to "remove those in power" in order to save the country's education.

Lesotho

SOUTH AFRICA: GOVT CONSIDERS PLIGHT OF ORPHANED CHILDREN

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Sep 27, 2001

Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya has been focussing on community projects that improve the living conditions and survival chances of vulnerable and orphaned children.

South Africa

Vacancies - African Medical & Research Foundation

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Sep 10, 2001

The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) is an African, non-profit, regional health NGO whose mission is to empower disadvantaged people in Africa to enjoy better health. We have over five hundred employees throughout Africa, and Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, with country offices in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa and field offices in Ethiopia, and Mozambique and Somalia. We are searching for suitable candidates to fill the challenging position of Programme Monitoring a...read more

Chief Executive Officer

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Sep 10, 2001

Aga Khan Education Service, Kenya is a professionally managed and dynamic non-profit organization that operates thirteen independent schools in Kenya as well as facilitates outreach programmes for educational development. Currently AKES-K is looking for a suitable candidate to fill the position of Chief Executive Officer.

CHAD: Many reported dead or missing in floods

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Sep 10, 2001

Some 129,500 people have been affected by floods in Chad, and 100 are reported dead or missing, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report dated 11 September.

Chad

UNAIDS Country Programme Adviser

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Sep 10, 2001

The Country Programme Adviser supports, promotes and documents the role of UNAIDS as the leading advocate for an urgent, coordinated and comprehensive response to the epidemic. Working primarily with and through cosponsors, Secretariat staff provide leadership and coordination, urge rapid political, social and resource mobilisation and provide high quality strategic information in the pursuit of these objectives.

SOUTH AFRICA: ATTACKS ON MIGRANTS

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Sep 10, 2001

Migrants from countries neighboring South Africa are being blamed for the slow improvement in the standard of living of Blacks since apartheid ended in 1994. Migrants have been harassed and attacked by South Africans, and police often do not intervene. Reports indicate that other African countries are taking steps to tighten migration controls.

South Africa

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA: WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM

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Sep 10, 2001

Discussions on migrants' rights in relation to racist, discriminative or xenophobic practices against them coming to good terms. A special spokeswoman on migrants' rights at the World Conference Against Racism assessed the substantial progress made in the realm of migrant rights before the migrant caucus, where representatives from organisations from all around the world were present.

South Africa

Morocco: Newspaper banned

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Sep 10, 2001

The government of Morocco has seized the 6 September 2001 issue of the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo," after the daily printed statements by the Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Josep Pique insinuating that the Moroccan police had ties to the (immigration) mafia, according to Reporters sans frontières (RSF). Sources told RSF that all 200 copies of the issue were confiscated at the Casablanca Airport. "Every time a foreign newspaper writes an article that displeases the Moroccan government, it g...read more

Morocco

Eyecatcher Associates (Research)

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Sep 10, 2001

You may have read that in British Prime Minister's Tony Blair's second term of office in Downing Street, he wants to make Africa a personal priority. My colleague Lesley Abdela and I are therefore producing a short research paper for a United Kingdom Department of State in which we will put forward as many practical suggestions as possible on what could be done to - help reduce conflict in Africa; promote more equitable and sustainable development throughout the Continent. Both elements can b...read more

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