Between August 16 and September 4, an expansive film and audio-visual campaign, The Jozi Summit Film Festival 2002, will occur simultaneously with the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Gauteng. This is the first time ever, that key industry stakeholders, join forces in a local initiative of this nature. The significance of this collaboration is unprecedented.

Burkina Faso and the Netherlands government signed an agreement on Thursday, in which the Dutch government would provide 21 billion cfa (US $30 million) to support a three year poverty reduction strategy.

This is the first call for applicants for Adilisha distance learning courses for human rights and advocacy organisations in southern Africa. Fahamu, in association with the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, will be offering courses specifically designed to meet the needs of human rights and advocacy organisations in southern Africa. Developed together with international and regional experts, seven courses will be run in the course of the next 12 months.

Three Daily News staffers arrested on Sunday 16 June are still languishing in police cells and medical attention has been denied to them and a number of other people arrested on the same day. Daily News reporter Guthrie Munyuki, photographer Urgunia Mauluka and driver Shadreck Mukwecheni were arrested while they covered an opposition gathering that the police brutally clamped down on. The three were beaten by the police resulting in Munyuki sustaining a fracture on his right hand wrist. Mauluka's elbow was swollen according to a doctor who was granted access to the three on Sunday. The police have since denied medical attention to the three and many other opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party supporters who were arrested on Sunday.

The United Nations Children's Fund has launched an appeal for additional funding to help Angola's children, as the true scale of the country's humanitarian tragedy unfolds.

President Levy Mwanawasa's decision to scrap cost sharing in Zambian schools and re-introduce free education has run into controversy over whether the government can afford adequate levels of funding to the country's neglected schools.

Will conduct rapid assessments in 4 states in Nigeria (in the NW, NE, SW, and SE zones), interacting with consumers, government and its regulatory agencies, the food industry, and key informers at the grassroots.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has developed strategies to be implemented in its campaign for the protection of the rights and privileges of the West African child.

VSO is a leading international development charity that works through volunteers. We are looking for a suitably qualified person to co-ordinate and strengthen the financial information systems used in VSO's overseas programme management.

The National Federation of People with Disabilities is an umbrella organisation working to support and strengthen local disability organisations. We are looking to recruit a candidate from the Southern Africa region. The adviser will work with building and developing the management and organisational capacity of the Secretariat to work effectively as an effective national support organisation, and provide advice on strengthening its fundraising capabilities. You should be experienced in an organisational development role, and have skills in training, personnel management, fundraising and strategy development. The ability to transfer and adapt skills and knowledge to the context is essential. Due to the nature of this post CIIR is looking to recruit a person from the Southern Africa region who has gained a range of international development experience in the region or beyond.

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The South African presidency has dismissed reports that Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi believed President Thabo Mbeki's New Partnership for Africa's Development was a project of former colonialists and racists. Rumours that South Africa is involved in talks about a possible arms deal with Libya have also been played down.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has urged the Nigerian government to take steps to domesticate international conventions on children's rights and create the proper environment to protect those rights.

The head of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) has said that the continent is still "failing" its children. African governments had "not lived up to our undertakings" after setting up a continent-wide charter to protect children, OAU Secretary-General Amara Essy said on Sunday.

At least 5,7-million children in South Africa, roughly a third of those under 18, would have lost one or both parents from Aids by 2015 unless there were major interventions, the Medical Research Council (MRC) has warned.

The JEP believes that young people have the inherent right to contribute to and be nurtured by South African society, which recognises and responds to the full range of needs and gifts of young women and men. The JEP is a national not-for-profit youth development organisation, based in Johannesburg and is seeking a very competent and dedicated Finance Officer.

The Sekhukhune Educare Project, an NGO specialising in Early Childhood Development based in Jane Furse, Limpopo Province is inviting applications for an Administrator's position.

Interfund, a consortium of donors based in Scandinavia and Europe, has launched it's new website. The new website was launched in a fun-filled evening with cultural performances at the Civic Theatre.

ICD is looking to recruit two development workers to work with a range of local
NGOs, LNGOs, in Somaliland assisting in building their capacity and specific
skills for community development activities.

Children First, a non government organisation that exists to promote and protect the rights and well-being of children, is looking for a full-time staff member, based in Durban, to monitor trends and developments in children's rights in these and other areas. Main tasks will be: to source and collate information, and disseminate it to Partners and the Media. This will include background research for articles in our journal, ChildrenFIRST, and other publications.