Uncomfortable questions are being asked about Britain's Somali immigrants - and the answers are by no means easy to find. When Adam Dirir and his colleagues at Somali Voice take to the airwaves on Friday evenings, they face an image crisis. Headline after headline has talked about Somali crime gangs terrifying communities. And yet, in reality and after more than a century of Somali presence in the UK, little is known about who they are.

Mozambique started openly courting Zimbabwe's mainly white commercial farmers after the ZANU-PF government instituted its fast-track land reform programme in 2000 and the agricultural sector, a mainstay of the neighbouring country's economy, began to crumble. But unlike Zambia, Mozambique's romance with the migrant Zimbabweans appears to have faded in the past two years.

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Tertiary students from sub-Saharan Africa are the most mobile in the world, with one out of every 16 – or 5.6 percent - studying abroad, according to a report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). "What this report shows is that the real dynamic in tertiary education is coming from African, Arab and Chinese students. They are the driving force behind the internationalization of higher education," says Hendrik van der Pol, UIS Director.

Ruth First was a journalist, activist and intellectual killed by the apartheid government while in exile. To commemorate her contribution to critical, independent, socially-engaged writing, the Wits University Journalism Programme, in conjunction with the Ruth First Trust and supported by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, has established a 3-6 month fellowship.

The Government has released Sh1.3 billion for the free education programme to meet general expenditure in schools. This is the equivalent of Sh185 a pupil in all the 18,000 public primary schools in the country, acting Education minister Noah Wekesa said at the ministry headquarters.

From 5 – 9 June the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg plays host to a five-day workshop, ‘Time for a New Phonics Approach for Teaching English in Africa?’, and what started off as a workshop to provide an opportunity for local teachers and educators in South Africa to debate issues surrounding the teaching of English synthetic phonics has seen an unprecedented number of enquiries for places from all over the continent of Africa and beyond. Many in the world of education are welcoming THRASS as heralding the start of a new era in the teaching of English.

President Lansana Conte has reshuffled the government of Guinea, appointing a longtime trusted aide to the top cabinet post and bringing back several onetime ministers. The reshuffle, announced on state radio and television on Monday evening, comes almost two months after the sacking of reformist prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo, 5 April, and Radio France Internationale said it marked a return of the old guard in Guinea, where Conte has been in office for 22 years.

From the 31st of May to the 4th of June, Heads of State and Civil Society will be attending the UNGASS Review Conference in New York. In order to maximize media coverage, SAfAIDS has created a Weblog to post relevant information about the event as well as to enable civil society to participate and comment on the progress and outcomes of the conference. The blog will offer up-to-date and current analysis of the UNGASS meeting and comments from relevant stakeholders from Southern Africa. It will also enable those who are attending the review meeting to post their updates, comments and opinions on the conference events and outcomes. Interestingly, the blog is an open platform for everyone to comment or post opinions on UNGASS. SAfAIDS will post latest articles and issues around UNGASS and open them for discussion. Among the issues to be discussed are civil society participation, involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWAs), leadership, accountability and transparency, trade, debt and access to treatment, gender and special or vulnerable population, prevention and testing, health systems and brain drain.

15-year-old Brian Koshoti is one of the hundreds of street children that live and work on the streets of Harare. Brian grew up in Mutare but when his parents died he moved in with his grandparents. Tragedy struck again when his grandmother passed away. Meanwhile as young Brian mourned the death of his grandmother, his grandfather married a young woman who had 3 children.

This conference will be held on July 2-5, 2006 Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. It will focus on the question: how do our educational institutions need to change in order for learning to become genuinely transformational?

The postholder will assist with the smooth running of administration within Progressio by providing support to the Administrative Manager, the PA to the Executive Director and to the International Programmes Team via the Programmes Support Officer. A part of the job will cover reception duties, acting as a first contact for visitors and telephone enquiries.

This seminar is founded on a shared desire for innovative and collaborative exploration of current and anticipated people and conservation issues in an integrated, transdisciplinary approach within an African context.

ADVAD and FAHAMU are seeking a project officer to assist in implementing an African Diaspora development programme to strengthen the organisational, management and advocacy capacity of African Diaspora organisations in the UK. This is a fixed term part-time position for 17 hours per week, for a period of 18 months. For job description and application details, contact [email][email protected] (This post is supported by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation).

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is seeking an Executive Director to lead its organization in promoting free expression in Canada and around the world.

The development worker will work as an IT Advisor alongside SAfAIDS, assisting with the conceptualisation and implementation of its regional programme incorporating Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) and HIV and AIDS, as well as building the capacity of staff in Information Technology (IT) and ICTs.

We are seeking an exceptional manager who will help shape our strategy, deliver a high quality programme and demonstrate leadership in a complex and demanding external environment. You must demonstrate excellent judgement, programme development experience, have strong financial and people management skills, a clear commitment to promoting gender equality and be able to represent Oxfam GB at the highest levels.

Nine EU nations have pledged to provide aircraft and patrol boats to support Spain in its effort to stem the flood of illegal migrants from Africa. Spain says it needs additional five patrol boats, five helicopters and a surveillance plane to track refugees arriving to the Canary Islands. Some 7,500 migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic in 2005.

The African Child Policy Forum has announced that their research shows nine out of ten girls in East Africa are abused by the people who they are supposed to trust most. The research tells the story of their mothers tying them up; friends driving them into prostitution; teachers psychologically abusing them; boyfriends forcing them to have sex; and brothers kicking them.

Carolina for Kibera, Inc. (CFK) is a 501(c)(3) international non-governmental organization housed at the University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Supported by private donations and grants from the Ford Foundation, CFK has established a youth sports association, girls' center, and medical clinic in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.