John Muswere, 34, arrived four hours ago at the main bus terminus in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, after making an unplanned journey with his wife, their three-year-old child and few household possessions from Johannesburg, South Africa, where he spent 18 months working as a mechanic. "I am left with little money on me because I left South Africa in a hurry and before my employer could pay me. All the transport operators are saying my money is too little and I don't know how I am going to leave this place [the bus terminus]," Muswere told IRIN while his wife tried to pacify their wailing child.

The National Olympic Committee (NOC) and National Paralympic Committee (NPC) Services and Relations team is located within the Sports department of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). The team will define the service levels and manage the relationships with the 205 NOCs and 162 NPCs preparing for and sending athletes to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We are looking for a highly motivated and multilingual Regional Coordinator for Africa to contribute to building and managing successful relationships with a number of assigned client groups in order to deliver key services at Pre-Games and Games time. Experience of working in, or closely with Africa is essential

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This year’s conference amends Kwame Nkrumah’s and Cheikh Anta Diop’s challenge to the African Personality—to move beyond mere festivals and cultural celebrations of African identity—to introduce a cohesive Pan-African Personality configured to reflect the distinct cultural character of African aspirations at home and abroad. The Pan-African personality embodies the historical memory, common sense, collective consciousness, artifacts, social institutions, innovations and creative visions of the composite African People.