The yellow fever vaccine will be used for the first time by the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to inoculate some 700,000 children in 2003, the UN children's agency UNICEF said on Monday.

This is a new and exciting opportunity to lead, develop, manage and have responsibility for development, emergency, advocacy, policy and campaign work for two specific regions in the Africa Division. You would be responsible for the processes of developing, implementing and monitoring CA policy and strategy for the West Africa region or the East Africa and Horn region. Click on the link for details and a list of other Christian Aid links.

The Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) is a non-profit organisation working in the area of HIV/AIDS social research, programme development and communications. An experienced researcher is required to implement and manage a range of research projects.

The UHRC seeks assistance from an international advisor with the purpose to enhance its organisational capacity to fulfilling it's mandate and carrying out it's activities. The advisor will report directly to the chairperson of UHRC (who is based in the Central office in Kampala) and will assist in designing and implementing organisational developments initiatives within UHRC. Such activities will address a wide range of strategic, managerial and administrative issues including financial management.

Over 600 South Africans die of HIV/AIDS every day. Many more die throughout the developing world. This does not have to be. In wealthy countries and Brazil, people with HIV/AIDS are living longer, healthier lives because they have access to life-saving medicines. The Treatment Action Campaign has been waging a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience in protest of the South African government's negligence in the matter of providing treatment to South Africans living with HIV/AIDS. As part of this campaign the TAC is planning a Day of International Action to demonstrate that the world supports the struggle of South Africans for universal access to treatment. The Day of International Action is scheduled for 24 April.

The Draft Children's Bill, to be tabled in Parliament for debate and passage during 2003, moves away from an emphasis on the welfare needs of children already experiencing abuse and neglect, and focuses on the need to prevent abuse and neglect from occurring and to support families to care for their children. Thus, poverty alleviation strategies, an inter-departmental approach to caring for children's survival, development and protection needs, a comprehensive social security system, and an overall foundational commitment to the prioritisation of children's rights are the cornerstones, according to this briefing from the organisation Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (RAPCAN).

An independent radio station in Burundi, African Public Radio, reported that around 440 civilians have been killed in fighting in the eastern province of Ruyigi since January.

On the first anniversary of Angola's peace accord that ended 27-years of war, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has pleaded with the international community not to forget the southern African nation. "As the world focuses on Iraq, now is not the time to overlook Angola," UNICEF Angola Representative Mario Ferrari said in a statement.

The number of orphans in Zambia will rise to nearly one million by the year 2014, UN resident co-ordinator Olubanke King-Akerele has said. And United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) executive director Carol Bellamy has said that the leadership of countries in Southern Africa is "very thin" when it comes to fighting HIV/AIDS.

The OR Tambo Municipality has given the Laveli Langa Children's Care Centre a shot in the arm by committing R400000 towards building them a permanent home. The mayor's office manager, Khaya Gashi, said the building was expected to start immediately as a tender was awarded for the project last week.

February donations for the Community Chest were R10000 up on last year and the total now stands at R60 000 ahead, executive director Joss Hamilton said. "A R12000 anonymous donation helped, the raffle has started bringing in funds and a very welcome R2000 was received from Defy Appliances.”

The fiasco over hundreds of millions of rands destined to fight Aids in KwaZulu-Natal is over. The province is set to receive the first instalment of nearly $72 million (about R576m) within the coming months to extend a range of HIV programmes - and start providing anti-retroviral triple therapy to a limited number of patients.

TIEMS, The International Emergency Management Society, is conducting an assessment to identify what are the unmet needs of emergency management professionals in Africa and how the Society can help to address these needs. TIEMS' annual conference will be held in Provence France from June 3 to 6 2003. The conference organisers have set aside a session period for discussions on disaster management and research in Africa. The intent of this session is to identify key areas where further efforts are needed to support and expand disaster management and research in Africa. The format of the session will be based on short presentations followed by discussions. Individuals interested in participating in the session, or wanting to express opinions on disaster management and research in Africa, are encouraged to attend the conference. Recognizing the short lead time before the conference and often long lead times needed to secure travel funds and documents, an option for "virtual participation" in the session is available.

It has been just over a year since the end of decades of brutal war in Angola, the second richest country in Africa. What are the current challenges facing Angola and how does this country factor into Africa’s future? The All About Angola series is an effort to provide the general public with information concerning the exigencies of Angola and to serve as a unique networking opportunity for people of African descent, and all peace and justice loving people who wish to foster the development of progressive issues and agendas related to Africa.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, planning and supervising the expansion of social marketing activities nation-wide, including overseeing program sites in the interior, hiring and training PSI field staff, and coordinating with local NGOs.

The successful candidate will conduct extensive field research into prevailing security, social, political and economic conditions in West Africa (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast).

The Open Knowledge Network, is an initiative of the G8 Digital Opportunity Taskforce (DOTForce) linking together existing grassroots information and knowledge-sharing initiatives to promote both the creation and the exchange of local content as widely as possible across the South, supported by a range of different information and communication technologies (ICTs). The programme is coordinated by OneWorld International and its network of southern offices. The Africa Programme Manager will lead the development of the OKN, managing programme planning, coordination and implementation.

In Amigna Daba, a small rural village in the south-central Ethiopian highlands, girls must overcome distance as well as cultural and religious barriers to education. The village has no services, no safe water, and no roads, or other basic infrastructure. The nearest school is a three-hour walk away. The challenges children face in going to school in rural Ethiopia are hard to imagine. Sixty-four percent of the population in the country lives in absolute poverty. This harsh statistic translates into a weak educational infrastructure, which serves only 57 percent of the total school age population and 47.0 percent of school age girls.

There is a general complaint in Southern Africa that there is a lack of laboratories, no science apparatus and no chemicals. But in this article, Keith Warren of the Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique argues that this is the wrong way to view the situation. People have become accustomed to seeing problems and complaining, he says. But there is an alternative - to find opportunities. Warren describes how he and his colleagues have used simple local resources - such as a few nails and a yard of wire - to teach children basic scientific concepts and transmit some knowledge and confidence to the country's younger generation.

The NGO Refugees International (RI) has called for leaders of groups that employ child soldiers to be declared war criminals and prosecuted as such by the International Criminal Court. In a report published on 1 April highlighting the plight of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), RI said that despite UN Security Council resolutions and international protocols prohibiting the recruitment and use of child soldiers, there had been too little progress in eliminating this form of child abuse in the DRC.