Kenya Female Advisory Organisation (KEFEADO) in partnership with the Urgent Action Fund – Africa are pleased to announce a new grant to support undergraduate and masters women students in Kenyan universities who are in the final stages of their dissertation work. The Dolphine Okech Writing Grant (DOWG) seeks to facilitate rigorous engagement of undergraduate and masters students in research, strengthen their research skills, and provide the fellows an opportunity for timely completion of their dissertations.

Human rights violations including sexual violence and unlawful killings are being perpetrated by forces loyal to both Côte d'Ivoire's outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo and internationally recognised incumbent Alassane Ouattara, an Amnesty International investigation has revealed. Victims and eyewitnesses first-hand accounts of the ongoing abuses, which follow the disputed November 2010 election, are contained in a six-page summary of preliminary findings compiled by Amnesty International researchers during a four-week visit to Côte d'Ivoire.

'On 18 and 19 February 2011, the National Steering Committee of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) held its first meeting after the historic DLF’s founding conference held last month at Wits University. This committee meeting was held in eThekwini as part of initiating the launch and growth of the DLF process, campaigns and structures in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The meeting was held in the immediate aftermath of the people’s revolutions for democracy and wealth redistribution in the countries of the Maghreb and the Arab world, President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address, the forthcoming municipal elections and the current wave of worker and community protests as we have seen with the recently-ended truck driver’s strike, the Equal Education Campaign’s protest outside parliament concerning the crisis in the Eastern Cape education system, and the community protests in Grahamstown, Ermelo and others bubbling elsewhere.'