Six donor countries have granted 39 million US dollars to support education development in Mozambique and the sector's second strategic plan. A memorandum to that effect was signed in Maputo on Tuesday by Education Minister Aires Aly and Dutch Ambassador Lidi Remmelzwaal, on behalf of the six donor countries - namely Holland, Canada, Ireland, Britain, Germany, and Finland. Speaking shortly after the signing ceremony, Remmelzwaal said that this sum will be increased to 50 million US dollars in 2007.

This study aims to generate and analyse a set of youth education and employment indicators based on survey data for a subset of 13 countries in the Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)region. Particular emphasis is put on measuring the initial transition from school to work for different groups of young people, and on identifying the factors affecting this transition. Findings are compared across the 13 countries.

This handbook was developed to provide a holistic regional resource package for capacity building of Non-Formal Education personnel in Africa. The main objective is to build the capacities of facilitators and other literacy and non-formal education personnel to promote learning and development at the community level. It aims at developing their skills and knowledge in literacy training, while sensitising them to issues that are at the very heart of adult literacy and education in Africa.

The JGI-Congo Country Coordinator will provide supervisory oversight for JGI – Congo, and financial, technical, and administrative support for the Tchimpounga Reserve and JGI activities, projects, and programs in Congo. These activities include chimpanzee and other primate research, sanctuary support, community-centered conservation, conservation education, and eco-system landscape scale biodiversity conservation.

"Border Patrol" is a Flash-based game that lets players shoot at Mexican immigrants as they try to cross the border into the United States. "There's one simple rule," the game's opening screen states, "keep them out ... at any cost!" The game first surfaced in 2002, but amid the national uproar over illegal immigration, it has reared its ugly head once again.

Despite the International Workers’ Day, many workers’ concerns remain unresolved and workers remain uninformed. As a response, labour NGO NALEDI and COSATU have collaborated to deliver the My Wage website. My Wage provides an online salary checker, a questionnaire that collects data for further research development by the Wage Indicator team, and a wealth of informative articles designed to help every South African achieve their goals of stable and satisfactory employment.

Agricultural research in Ethiopia has not achieved a consistent increase in crop productivity over the past 40 years. Ethiopia is still economically underdeveloped and food aid imports are estimated to be more than 0.6 million metric tonnes each year. However, recent developments are more encouraging.

More than a million immigrants in the United States have taken part in a day of nationwide action to protest against proposed immigration reform. Mass rallies were staged across the US as immigrants boycotted work or school and avoided spending money as a way of showing their worth to the economy. Called A Day Without Immigrants, the protest took place as Congress wrestles with reforming immigration laws.

The Africa and Middle East Department (AFME) is one of the four regional departments of Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S) and is made up of two sub-regions: the Sub-Sahara Africa sub-region and the Middle East and North Africa sub-region. The main function of the position is a responsibility for country and regional work in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East - supporting both sides of the team.

The North-South Institute is pleased to invite applications for its annual Visiting Researcher position. This year's position is open to African policy researchers interested in spending from nine months to one year at the Institute, which is based in Ottawa, Canada.

A report detailing white South Africa's deadly military involvement during apartheid's dying days has been made public for the first time, the Sunday Independent reported. The Steyn report, compiled by a top apartheid general for South Africa's last white president, FW de Klerk, details how the army helped destabilise the country during the turbulent early 1990s.

This booklet brings together the results of a research programme conducted on violence and abuse in schools in Togo. The publication describes the main forms of violence against children in schools: corporal punishment; forced labour; sexual harassment and sexual violence; and attempts to provide some understanding of the social framework within which such violence appears "normal".

Africa will not achieve universal primary education (UPE) until at least 2150. Progress towards it is essential. But what about the millions of new primary school graduates? Unless children are offered opportunities for secondary schooling, the economic outcomes from this education will never materialise. Forty million African children – almost half of the continent’s primary level children – are not in school; about two-thirds of these children are girls. .

Who aspires to teach in this small southern African state? A new report examines what newly qualified teachers (NQTs) think of the training they have received and reviews how their expectations match those of the teacher trainers. It looks at whether they are content with the teacher education curriculum they are presented with and assesses how cost effective the current teacher training system is.

The Regional Director will provide strategic program leadership and overall management of the Oxfam America Regional Office. He/she will also provide overall creative and administrative leadership to agency development of a long-term strategic vision and action plan for a growing regional program.

Reporters Without Borders has called on the new head of the Liberia National Police, Beatrice Munah Sieh, to take energetic measures to ensure respect for the work of the press after two reporters were beaten by police officers while covering the eviction of street vendors in Monrovia on 20 April.

The Institute for Security Studies and the South African National NGO Coalition are calling for the prosecution of people who plundered state resources during apartheid. The move is likely to send shock waves through South Africa's political, security and business establishment. The report, titled Apartheid Grand Corruption: Assessing the Scale of Crimes of Profit During Racist Rule in South Africa from 1976 to 1994, is likely to ruffle feathers among former SADF generals, National Party and bantustan politicians, businessmen, public servants and intelligence operatives if it is adopted by the National Anti-Corruption Forum.

Millions of Kenya's cellular phone users could soon benefit from what would become East Africa's lowest mobile phone call rates, according to a report by Business Week. Information attributed to sources in the Ministry of Information and Communications, indicates that government is in the process of harmonising and drastically lowering cellular phone call rates by nearly 90%.

The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project is a respected lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and intersexed organisation with a long and proud history of fighting for the political and legal rights of the LGBTI community. We are seeking a Director. She/he will, under the direction of the Board, lead a small staff complement, with a clear strategic focus and related programmes.

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is looking for three associate professional officers to work on CIFOR research activities. This program gives promising young researchers or professionals invaluable on-the-job training under guidance by established scientists/professionals.