Latest research on African connectivity

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May 30, 2002

Research released this February by Mike Jensen reveals that the Internet is now available in all 54 African countries and territories, up from four years ago when only a handful of countries had local access. [Source:TAD Consortium May 2002]

UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

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May 30, 2002

Did you ever wonder when exactly after the deposit of the 20th ratification or accession the Convention will enter into force, what needs to be done and how your organization could be involved ? December 18 has the following suggestions.

UGANDA: Special Report on resettlement of Kikagati returnees

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May 30, 2002

Mpanga Primary School is situated inside the Kahunge Refugee Resettlement Scheme in Kamwenge District, southwestern Uganda. Here, a group of Ugandan displaced people - originally expelled from Tanzania - who arrived overnight on May 6 are starting to gather around aid workers who are distributing clothes, food, hoes and domestic implements. The Ugandan returnees are part of a group of 3,027 Ugandans, mainly ethnic Bakiga cattle herders, expelled from Tanzania in late 2000, allegedly for votin...read more

Uganda

Kenya: Two Million Children At Work

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May 30, 2002

There are 1.9 million child labourers in Kenya, a government report says. Of these, 15,000 work in risky and hazardous conditions such as mining, quarrying, building and construction, fishing, commercial agriculture and road and transport work. The report, launched in Nairobi by Planning Minister Adhu Awiti, says close to four out of every 10 child labourers work more than the standard 40-hour week. Children in domestic service routinely work more than 41 hours per week.

Kenya

SOMALIA: New report urges ''renewed engagement''

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May 30, 2002

The instability and power vacuum created by the collapse of the Somali state poses the greatest danger to the outside world and to Somalia itself, according to a new report by the Brussels-based think tank, the International Crisis Group (ICG). In a press release to launch the report, the ICG said Somalia was one of the world's chief examples of a failed state. "Its highly fragmented internal security situation and the competing agendas of its neighbours have raised concerns that it may agai...read more

Somalia

GUINEA-BISSAU: Sixty percent of primary age children not enrolled

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May 30, 2002

Guinea-Bissau faces a daunting task to improve children’s well being. While national immunisation coverage has improved, its 40 percent primary school enrolment was decreasing, the UN High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) reported on Wednesday.

Guinea Bissau

Update on Education for All progress in Africa

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May 30, 2002

The third issue of the electronic bulletin on Education for All in Africa is now out. Prepared by UNESCO Dakar, it reports on progress made by African countries in preparing credible national EFA action plans before the deadline of September 2002. The Bulletin also reports on the series of regional and sub-regional meetings on EFA organized in recent months by UNESCO Dakar.

Education: Quality and Quantity

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May 30, 2002

Education for all means more than getting all children into school. It also means giving them a quality education. New reports from UNESCO’s Institute of Statistics show both goals are still distant in Latin America and Africa.

BURKINA FASO: Project to help street children

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May 30, 2002

United Nations Volunteers (UNV) has announced that it will run a five-year project aimed at transforming the lives of some 1,200 disadvantaged children in two of Burkina Faso's towns, Bobo-Dioulasso and Hounde.

Burkina Faso

South Africa: Skweyiya to Launch Child Protection Week

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May 30, 2002

The Department of Social Development will host a workshop in Pretoria tomorrow, to mark the beginning of the Child Protection Week from 27 May to 2 June.

South Africa

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