The Associate Director for European Operations and Personnel will play a lead role in the management and development of HRW’s fast-growing European operations. He or she will be responsible for creating, implementing, and monitoring systems and processes for the effective management of human resources, finances, accounting, administration, facilities, and strategic planning across all of HRW’s European locations.

President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration has halted an initiative of his predecessor to privatise 102 elite public secondary schools across Nigeria. “The manner and rush in which the pubic-private partnership arrangement was put in place did not give room for consideration of wider views and ideas on how best the schools could be effectively and efficiently managed,” said Education Minister Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu in a 27 September statement.

The International Women’s Media Foundation seeks proposals for a research consultant to conduct a needs assessment of the current news media environment with respect to agriculture, rural development and women in Africa. The needs assessment is an integral part of the first phase of a four-year project that the IWMF will conduct among news media organizations in Africa.

CIVICUS seeks to recruit Associates for its Civil Society Watch Programme (CSW).

The position will be based in Lusaka, with extensive travel to 16 project sites in Lusaka and all the provinces and will be housed within the Broadcasting Programme of MISA Zambia.
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For the fifth year running, Pambazuka News has been selected as one of 25 finalist nominations in the 'Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics' competition.

Whether it's Kenya's electoral crisis or the mass killings in Darfur, Pambazuka News is the source of authentic voices of Africa's social activists and analysts - a platform for voices that challenge mainstream perceptions and biases. Published in English, French and Portuguese and with a readership of over 500,000, Pambazuka comprises a social network of more than 1,500 academics, activists, women's rights campaigners, bloggers, artists and commentators who together produce insightful and thoughtful analyses that make it one of the most innovative and influential sites for social justice in Africa.

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A trial of the microbicide gel, Carraguard, is being run by the Population Council, an international non-profit organisation, at three sites in South Africa: the Setshaba Research Centre in Soshanguve, in Cape Town and in KwaZulu-Natal Province. Microbicides include a range of products - such as gels, films and sponges - that could help prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. No microbicide has yet been shown to be effective.

Every day a bus, usually packed to capacity, leaves Malawi for South Africa. Most of the passengers are traders, off to sell wooden curios in the main South African cities of Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. A few stop in Harare, Zimbabwe, with pieces of cloth and food products such as flour and sugar. From South Africa, the traders bring back items of clothing, shoes, electronics and personal accessories. Those who go to Zimbabwe buy butter, jam and tomato sauce to sell in Malawi.

Flash floods sweeping across northern and eastern Uganda have damaged hundreds of schools, leaving at least 100,000 children out of class, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. The floods have also destroyed sanitation facilities, preventing the 289 affected schools from reopening, two weeks after other Ugandan schools resumed classes.

Zambia’s Justice Minister George Kunda has accused The Post newspaper of working against the government on the Constitution-making process. In the edition of September, 17, Kunda referred to former president Frederick Chiluba as one of the main architects of the current constitutional problems, and asked, '…is it not a contradiction that [editor] Fred M’membe and the Press Freedom Committee of The Post wittingly or unwittingly should be working with Dr. Chiluba?'

The leadership of Nigeria's House of Representatives acted against the rules in approving contracts worth US$5,000,000 to renovate two official residences and buy 10 cars, a panel of legislators said on Wednesday. The scandal over the contracts has paralysed the House, where emotions run so high that members came to blows last Thursday during a hearing by the investigative panel after some of them shouted 'thief!' at Speaker Patricia Etteh.

For the third year running, Pambazuka News has been selected as one of 25 finalist nominations in the 'Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics'.

Pambazuka News is produced by a pan-African community of some 300 citizens and organisations – academics, policy makers, social activists, women’s organisations, civil society organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers and commentators.

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Unaccompanied children, an average of 14 years old but sometimes as young as seven, are being drawn to South Africa from neighbouring states in the hope of work and receiving an education, according to report published by Save the Children (UK). The report, compiled from a survey of 130 undocumented children in South Africa, said 'there are sufficiently large numbers of children crossing borders unaccompanied to warrant major concern'. An estimated 1,500 underage Zimbabweans enter South Africa each year.

With only 19 per cent of children in school following Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war, the former government began an ambitious project to renovate and build more schools. But while brightly painted blue and white classrooms have already popped up in towns and villages around the country they come at a time when fewer teachers than before are willing to work in them.

Under a new education policy, parents or guardians of children will soon face fines or even be arrested for allowing their children to sell in the streets during school hours. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced the measure in early September, which is said to be aimed at increasing school enrolment and curbing child labour.

Providing secondary education for the rapidly increasing number of primary school graduates is becoming a key policy issue throughout sub-Saharan Africa. This paper by the Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity offers new insights into necessary reforms to expand secondary enrolment. It outlines the current status and structure of provision, and the demographic issues that will influence access.

The Maastricht Graduate School of Governance wants to strengthen its senior research and teaching capacity in the broad field of governance, policy analysis and political science. We expect the professor to have extensive experience with inter-disciplinary education and research and with inter-faculty cooperation; expertise and international networks in the fields of political science and policy analysis.

For the third year running, Pambazuka News has been selected as one of 25 finalists for the Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics.

Pambazuka News is produced by a pan-African community of some 300 citizens and organisations – academics, policy makers, social activists, women’s organisations, civil society organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers, and commentators.

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The New Path: African Forum for Intellectual Thought is published quarterly by the African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF) and provides a forum for innovative thinking about our common future and about how we need to tackle the most intractable problems facing Africa today – focusing on Eastern Africa. The editor invites your articles (opinion and analysis) for the October 2007 edition. Please send your articles of not more than five thousand (5,000) words to: [email][email protected] by 20th September 2007.

A total of 109 primary and secondary schools have been selected as beneficiaries of the first phase of the 'Schools, University Access Programme to Digital Lifestyle' project of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) an initiative of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The projects to be completed in the next six months would include equipping the benefiting schools with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools.