An "angry and disappointed" Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Sunday leaked the key findings of a secret government report, kept under wraps for months, which says that 1,7 million lives can be saved by 2010 if Aids drugs are given to everyone needing them. This comes after months of frustration among health care workers and activists, who say they have lost patience with the government's apparent ambivalence over anti-retroviral drug programmes.

Human rights education has for a long time been considered the missing link in Kenya's education system, leading to stop gap measures like civic education. Teaching human rights to students can yield huge benefits in terms of building a culture of human rights and democracy. As a result, the government has now decided to incorporate human rights in the formal school curriculum, targeted for implementation in January 2003, barely beating the 2004 deadline for the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education.

The number of people with no education in SA is decreasing, according to the results of Census 2001, released by Statistics SA this week. This bodes well for the country as it shows that the education system is reaching more and more people.

Many schools in Kenya are coping with a 100% or more increase in student numbers that are triggered by the new government's free and compulsory primary education policy. Average class sizes have risen while facilities remained the same. With the influx of so many new children, latrine use might go up to 200 pupils per latrine. Poor hygiene at schools may add to the region's health problems, where already over 85% of illnesses reported at local clinics are water-related.

The prospects of Wireless Internet are by all admissions very promising, offering vast development opportunities worldwide both from a mobility and fixed infrastructure standpoint. Wireless Internet technologies present very attractive opportunities for developing countries to leapfrog several generations of telecommunications infrastructure. This is according to the conference manifesto of "The Wireless Internet Opportunity for Developing Nations" conference, hosted by the Wireless Internet Institute and the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force.

An international NGO on Tuesday said a shortage of funds was hampering the delivery of assistance to Zimbabwe's urban poor. Help Germany coordinator Hans Sittig told IRIN: "With the limited funds we are just managing to provide help to those who fall under our programme. But that is just scratching the surface. There are many other vulnerable groups who are desperately in need of assistance.”

Police recorded a "warn and caution" statement on 2 July from Masautso Phiri, editor of "Today" newspaper, who voluntarily presented himself for questioning at police headquarters one week after he was initially summoned. Phiri told the Zambia Independent Media Association (ZIMA) that police questioned him about a story entitled "Mwanawasa paves way for coup?" in the newspaper's 3 to 10 June edition.

The European Union (EU) has donated Sh500 million to the Government for the setting up of a recovery plan to market Kenya.

The Deputy Director is responsible for the planning, proposal preparation, management and implementation, budget control, monitoring and evaluation of all projects and programs in the Sudan Country Program.

The Country Director (CD) will join the Angola programme at an exciting point in its development. Concern has been operational in Angola since 1993 and are now developing a strategic plan to focus on advocacy and working with partners. The CD's role will be to provide management and leadership to this process.

The Chief Specialist and/or head of school post may be filled by one person fulfilling both roles or by two separate people, one as the Chief Specialist and one Head of School. These appointments may be at Professorial or Associate Professorial level. The Epidemiologist will be a dynamic person with excellent skills in Epidemiology and/or Biostatistics who will lead the Epidemiological research and training undertaken by the School of Public Health. The incumbent will be expected to stimulate epidemiologic research within the School and the Faculty.

Working with the Representative in Nairobi and other Ford Foundation staff, the Program Officer will be responsible for the Foundation's Eastern Africa programming on human rights and social justice in the region.

This is a new and exciting opportunity to lead, develop, manage and have responsibility for development, emergency, advocacy, policy and campaign work for the West Africa region. You would be responsible for the processes of developing, implementing and monitoring Christian Aid's policy and strategy for your region. For this and other Christian Aid vacancies please click on the link provided.

CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organisations, is inviting applications for national partners to implement the CIVICUS Civil Society Index (CSI) 2003-04. The CSI is an action-research project that assesses the state of civil society in countries around the world with a view to creating a knowledge base and an impetus for civil society strengthening initiatives. The CSI was successfully piloted in 14 countries around the world and CIVICUS has launched the first full implementation phase in 42 countries. The CSI will be implemented by civil society organisations at the country level, in close partnership with CIVICUS. The deadline for submissions is July 31st 2003. For more information and application details, please visit www.civicus.org and/or email [email protected]

The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has intensified its attacks in northern Uganda in recent weeks with the main objective of forcing internally displaced persons (IDPs) out of camps protected by the Ugandan army, the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) has said.

Anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) activists from 28 African and Arab countries want their respective Governments to come up with specific legislation prohibiting the practice. In a petition dubbed the Cairo Declaration, the activists want all Governments to adopt an appropriate law which will lead to the prevention and subsequent abandonment of FGM worldwide.

A local Zimbabwean NGO working with young people urgently requires the services of a Training Manager to start as soon as possible. The position objective is to manage the training delivery services of the department and implement all scheduled courses at national and regional level.

This article investigates the national and community level interventions that offer promise for increasing primary education access for children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable in areas heavily affected by AIDS in the eastern and southern Africa region. The report examines thirteen initiatives that have potential to increase primary education access for such groups.

Kenya needs about $70 million annually to assist approximately 1.2 million Kenyan children who are affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a UNICEF official said Monday, Agence France-Presse reports. Nicholas Alipui, UNICEF representative to Kenya, said that the problem of AIDS orphans could not be tackled without the support of government and international aid organisations.

According to the Sunday Times, popular South African artists have signed an open letter and a petition against Arts and Culture Minister Ben Ngubane's running of the state funded arts councils.