PATH Kenya (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) is seeking to fill a Program Officer position to fill a minimum of a one-year position based in Asmara, Eritrea with 30% travel within Eritrea. The Program Officer will be involved in a variety of HIV and AIDS interventions and responsible for the development of a range of communication media including interpersonal, print, mass and folk media.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) marked the second anniversary of the Eritrean government's crackdown on the country's political opposition and the private press by calling for the release of 17 jailed journalists. With the journalists in prison and no domestic independent media, Eritrea has earned the dubious distinction of being Africa's leading jailer of journalists, as well as one of CPJ's "10 Worst Places to be a Journalist" two years in a row.

Fifteen journalists are still languishing in Eritrean prisons nearly two years after a crackdown on the independent media, according to Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) and the Association of Eritrean Journalists in Exile (AEJE). The two organisations have criticised the "arbitrary" way in which the authorities carry out arrests as well as the secrecy surrounding journalists arrested in Eritrea.

In the past decade, the Gash-Barka region in Eritrea's western lowlands on the borders of Sudan and Ethiopia has become a site of resettlement for refugees returning from Sudan and those displaced by border clashes with Ethiopia. What impact has their arrival had on an already fragile natural resource base? What lessons can be applied to other settlement schemes for displaced people?