With the growth of our programme in Sierra Leone it has become necessary to recruit a Deputy to the Country Programme Manager. We are therefore looking for an experienced manager to ensure that the programme is to a high standard, as well as playing an important deputising role.

A new MA Program - Human Rights and Democratization - is a one-year inter-disciplinary program aiming to train human rights professionals in the field, including fact-finding, reporting, monitoring, education, lobbying, and research. Participants will obtain a thorough understanding of the legal framework, human rights instruments, and enforcement mechanisms in South Africa, Africa, and internationally.

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) is failing to recognise that increasing numbers of those living in extreme poverty are older people. The WSSD calls poverty reduction "the greatest global challenge facing the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development". It will re-state the goal of halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015. But it is population ageing rather than population growth amongst the poor that is now the core demographic trend. It has become a major social policy challenge in developed and developing countries, HelpAge International argues.

"The Starfish Charitable Foundation was founded by a group of young South Africans in London, England, in June last year. Starfish aims to raise money for children orphaned or made vulnerable by Aids; to date close on R2 million has been collected through various fundraising events."

"The non-profit sector is a major economic force in South Africa. It employs more people than the mining sector or the government - and its size and significance are far greater that previously thought."

"An important new study into South Africa's non-profit sector investment in the development activities of non-profit organizations is considerable-3, 5 billion annually."

In a ground-breaking move, the man accused of Marike de Klerk's murder and rape is to get R30 000 from the Foundation for Human Rights, funded by the European Union, so he can afford his own DNA expert.

The Irish Government has injected R2-million into the preparation and running of the World Summit on Sustainable Development to be staged in Johannesburg from August 24 to September 04.

Denmark has committed more than a R100 million to boost South Africa's fight against HIV/Aids. The funds will go towards two programmes aimed at reducing the impact of poverty and Aids, and tackling the link between violence against women and HIV/Aids.

The European Union has earmarked Sh1.8 million for poverty alleviation through the Ministry of Tourism.

Ways should be found to direct state resources to the 98920 nonprofit organisations in the country as a way of facilitating development, University of Natal's Centre for Civil Society director Prof Adam Habib says.

The Health and Social Services Ministry has 4 000 orphans on its books, most of whom have been left without parents as a result of HIV-AIDS.

President Yoweri Museveni has said the Government is to urgently construct a fully-fledged special primary and secondary school in Kampala to accommodate about 3,000 former Kony rebel captives, sources say.

With AIDS pummeling sub-Saharan Africa and a famine threatening the lives of millions of people in the southern part of the continent, many development specialists are calling on donors to take the unusual step of cancelling the countries' staggering debt payments of $14.6 billion each year. But some analysts, doubting that will happen, have a more provocative idea: Why don't African countries simply stop paying?

Provide managerial and technical support to the TTS project, in support of the Southern Africa Initiative on Youth and HIV/AIDS (SAY). Propose plans, budget and methods for handling communications strategy for TTS including promotion of special events. Maintain programmatic oversight on TTS staff activities.

Separatist rebels in the oil-rich Cabinda enclave on Wednesday accused the Angolan government of stepping up a military offensive, and warned they would not participate in peace talks until hostilities ended.

A key challenge for this position in the next few years will be to ensure the sustainability of our current work through capacity building of local NGOs and associations, through ongoing development of policy level partnerships and ensuring that lessons learned within Rwanda are shared with other SC UK programmes.

In the slums of Botswana's capital Gaborone, high unemployment mixed with alcohol and drug abuse help drive unsafe sex, reflected in shocking rates of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among the most vulnerable, adolescent girls.

Street children and child sex workers in Zambia's capital Lusaka will soon become familiar with a kerb crawler of a different kind - a mobile clinic equipped especially to treat children for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

A wave of baby murders are commanding front-page news in the small conservative kingdom of Swaziland. But while editorial writers are denouncing "mother murderers", women's rights groups argue the rising number of abandoned babies are a symptom of gender inequality in this traditional society.