The impasse between striking teachers in Zimbabwe and the government over better pay continued on Tuesday as a further 230 teachers were served with letters of suspension. So far close to 700 teachers have been ordered not to turn up for work following a break-down in talks between the government and the Progressive Teacher's Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), the union told IRIN.

The twenty-first century presents a hostile face to many millions of children in many African countries. An increasing number of children are being forced to the streets as a result of poverty, abuse, torture, rape, abandonment or being orphaned by AIDS.

Responsibilities include setting up a new project location in Luanda and Menongue (Kuando Kubango); establishing co-operation with national authorities, church institutions and NGOs; responsibility for regular contacts with partners in Angola and head office Cologne; representing Malteser vis-à-vis national authorities, NGOs, donors, church and international institutions; planning and co-ordinating successful and timely implementation of all project activities; financial management: overall responsibility for project budgets.

The responsibilities of the Program Coordinator include program planning, reporting and development, personnel management, and commodity control. The Program Coordinator will be responsible for efficient management of the program budget, coordination of human and material resources, and control of all USAID donated commodities.

Care for Malawi's orphans remains one of the government's major challenges, but little is being done to support the burgeoning number of destitute children, a British think-tank said in a recent report.

Care for Malawi's orphans remains one of the government's major challenges, but little is being done to support the burgeoning number of destitute children, a British think-tank said in a recent report.

This role is a very close supportive function to the Programme Co-ordinator. Applicants should enjoy working with and supporting local teams in a not always easy working environment.

Merlin has been operational in Kenya since 1998 and maintains a Regional Office in Nairobi, which currently supports Merlin's programmes in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Merlin plans on expanding its present programme portfolio and further developing the role of the Regional Office in Nairobi.

This job offers an exiting opportunity for an experienced PHC Nurse/Dr with a post-graduate qualification in tropical health, to develop their skills in clinical PHC teaching, health education, community development and project management.

International Medical Corps (IMC) is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and medical relief programs. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in communities throughout the world. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

The unique nature of farm worker communities makes them particularly vulnerable to the effects of HIV/AIDS and the lack of traditional safety nets within these communities increases the vulnerability of children, especially orphaned children. Future interventions to respond to the needs of child headed households will need to balance material and psycho-social aspects in order to avoid undermining existing coping mechanisms. Supporting community-based responses will involve long-term capacity building and training and require thorough support and follow-up, according to a study by the Farm Orphan Support Trust of Zimbabwe (FOST) on child-headed households on commercial farms in Zimbabwe.

Twenty-eight African Ministers of Education have so far agreed to participate in MINEDAF VIII, a regional conference on education to be held 2-6 December 2002 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The conference will review policy and cooperation in the field of education and identify ways to wage the education war effectively in view of its extreme urgency in Africa.

We, the Ministers of Finance and Planning and Economic Development—after meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 2002, under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa—have reached consensus on many issues of critical importance in accelerating Africa’s progress and development.

While the number of affected children is potentially large, very little is known about the welfare consequences of being an orphan in developing countries, where poverty is widespread and human capital is low.
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Three South African universities received R220 million from the United States National Institute for Health to be used in HIV-Aids research projects, officials said.

Kenya's estimated 240,000 public school teachers at the weekend called off their nationwide strike, much to the relief of the country’s education sector, which had been plunged into crisis for four weeks.

It is widely believed that children who are directly affected by AIDS are greatly disadvantaged at school and that teachers are a high risk group for HIV infection. Research in Botswana, Malawi and Uganda suggests that the situation is much more complex.

What does it mean to be a young orphan? Why and how are numbers burgeoning? Why are orphans socially excluded and how might education support their inclusion? This study investigates the lives of orphans in an area of Malawi, suggests why the numbers of orphans are exploding and indicates how the social unrest that may follow could be avoided.

The French Technical Assistance, represented in The Gambia by Le project d'Appui pour la diffusion et l'Emseignement du François, known as PADEF, last week donated a brand new computer, with a French keyboard and a UPS to The Independent to aid its weekly French publication.

GHACEM Limited has stated its corporate willingness to assist develop the media to a point where it can truly and vigorously hold the nation's politicians and all other citizens accountable for their actions.This was made known by Mr. George Dawson-Ahmoah, marketing director of Ghacem, when he handed over a free allocation of 500 bags of cement to the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in Accra last Friday.