TrustAfrica is looking for an exceptional individual to serve as its Finance Manager. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in ensuring sound financial management and regulatory compliance in a charitable organization as well as experience working in Africa.

TrustAfrica is looking for an exceptional individual to serve as its Program Coordinator. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in philanthropy in Africa and a deep understanding of the challenges TrustAfrica seeks to address.

TrustAfrica is looking for an exceptional individual to serve as Project Assistant for an initiative to support research on the investment climate and business environment in Africa.

The coordinator of the UN World Water Assessment Programme will be in charge of the management of the activities of the United Nations system-wide Programme, particularly the production of the WWDR. The Coordinator will manage the development of overall strategies and work plans for WWAP, including the coordination of all activities of UN partner organizations and external partners, through appropriate and effective channels, leading to the timely production of the periodic WWDRs.

Look at a map of school attendance in Uganda and you notice something different about Karamoja. Most children do not go to school; instead, Karamojong children live the pastoralist life. But traditions are changing across the plains and escarpments, long seen as Uganda's wildlands. And with that change comes a cultural struggle over the role of education.

At least two men died and several were seriously injured when about 70 people tried to storm a fence dividing Spain's enclave of Melilla from Morocco. It is thought that both fell from the top of a barrier six metres (yards) high, one landing on the Spanish side, the other on the Moroccan.

SAHRIT is engaged in a two year project on increasing demand for accountability and respect for human rights through utilization of enforcement mechanisms, which project covers six countries in the sub-region. As part of this project SAHRIT is commissioning an audit of the human rights framework in these countries, including generally an audit of the legislative, policy and administrative framework.

The Enable project implemented by E-Knowledge for Women in Southern Africa (EKOWISA) has reached its mid-term milestone and the project team seeks an independent value judgement on the activities implemented so far. We would like to use the lessons learnt to inform the next phase of the project.

TrustAfrica is looking for an exceptional individual to serve as Project Manager for an initiative to support research on the investment climate and business environment in Africa.

The Conference will be of interest to policymakers, administrators, non-governmental organizations, researchers, students, and private sector stakeholders involved in international migration and urban management issues. It is geared towards more effective policymaking, more socially meaningful research practices, and international collaboration towards the goal of strengthening policy and thereby allowing societies to better manage the challenges and opportunities that immigration and integration present, especially to their cities.

No fewer than ten primary school pupils were recently caught writing Primary Six examination for their parents, which the state Commissioner for Secondary and Primary Education, Dr. Veronica Ogbuagu has described as "preposterous".

School sponsors are under fire for allegedly contributing to dwindling education standards in Nyanza. Stakeholders, MPs and officials from the Ministry of Education were unanimous that interference by sponsors in management of institutions compromised academic standards.

With nearly 400 grants approved to combat HIV/ AIDS, TB and malaria, Global Fund-financed programs are proving that where money is invested, treatment and prevention efforts are working. In its latest progress report the Global Fund outlines the latest program results and looks at the initial data on how its grants affect health systems and indications of global impact in the fight against the diseases.

Standards of learning and teaching in Zimbabwe, at one time the envy of the African continent, have been plummeting, says a report by a cross-party parliamentary committee. "Education is now a preserve for the rich, some students have dropped out of programmes, others will not be able to write examinations, which they cannot afford, while others have had to defer their studies," the committee noted.

On the eve of the fifth annual conference staged by the Black Colloquium, an organisation that promotes African centred learning, a committee member said that the establishment of a black university in the UK is crucial to promote African centred learning.

It's not just conservative white Americans that are against the Senate's immigration reform plan that would grant earned legalization to millions of undocumented migrants. A group calling themselves simply 'Choose Black America' has emerged to oppose what they claim is an 'illegal alien amnesty', reports Hard Beat News.

Oxfam’s programme in Zimbabwe has gone through considerable changes in the past 18 months, in response to a rapidly changing context. Zimbabwe’s economic crisis coupled with the region’s underlying and deepening chronic vulnerability, creates a unique environment and a complex mix of emergency and development needs. Oxfam’s programme is responding to many of these needs, particularly food and livelihoods insecurity and the effects of HIV and AIDS.

GOAL has been operational in Zimbabwe since October 2002 and has mainly been involved in food distribution to combat the food shortages that have affected the country since 2000. Land reform measures introduced by the Government have rendered large amounts of prime farmland unproductive, and, as a result, contributed to the food shortages. Other factors such as poor rainfall, the collapse of the economy and the high rate of HIV/AIDS have played a part in turning what was once a food exporting country into a country dependent on foreign food aid for its survival.

The Trust for African Rock Art, TARA, is dedicated to the awareness and preservation of African rock art. It is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation, registered in Kenya and America whose work has been endorsed by Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan.

The conference will focus on the need to develop science communication and establish collaborative networks on the African continent. SAASTA aims to advance public awareness, appreciation, and engagement of science, engineering, and technology in South Africa.