Tanzania is deporting 57 Somali migrants who illegally entered that country last month, officials said. The migrants who were fleeing from the war in Somalia are mostly youth and included six children, officials said.

£36,554 – £40,964 per annum + benefits
London, Waterloo
Closing date: 27 April 2010
Interview date: w/c 3 May, 2010

We aim to hit the major causes of poverty head on. Two of the biggest are climate change and the abuse of power. Working with and lobbying contacts at the highest level – including government, UN and EU representatives – you’ll steer and deliver policies that tackle environmental and governmental injustice. We’re looking for three senior policy or advocacy champions with experience in the following areas and we are particularly interested in candidates from the Global South:

Global Advocacy and Alliances
Targeting international decision makers, you’ll focus on influencing EU and international policy in climate negotiations and wider economic justice issues.

Climate Justice & Poverty Over
You’ll investigate and steer politically-appropriate policy on climate justice and its links to poverty eradication.

Accountable Governance
Lead and support key partners as you research and devise policy that aims to counter inequality and promote inclusion in developing countries. To find out more and apply, please visit

Closing date: 27 April 2010. Interview date: w/c 3 May 2010.

Christian Aid is a registered charity in the UK (no. 1105851) and Scotland (no. SC039150).
Company no. 5171525

£24,636 - £27,642 per annum + benefits
London, Waterloo

We’re working with our partners in Angola with the focus “Justice in the use of power”. Together we help communities and groups strengthen their livelihoods, adapt to climate change, reduce the suffering caused by HIV and improve human rights. Take responsibility for monitoring and evaluation, and you’ll be key in helping us achieve our aims.

About the role
Everyone from individuals, churches and businesses to Irish Aid, Comic Relief and others, donate funds to Christian Aid. With your help we can be sure we’re putting that money to the best use. Monitoring and evaluating all of our Angola Programme projects and processes, you’ll look at how we’re using our resources to identify areas of potential improvement. An enthusiastic team player, you will contribute towards the programme’s total quality ensuring you communicate effectively with partners and valuing their experience and knowledge. You’ll also take charge of administrative and finance systems making sure our processes meet with compliance standards. You will use this information to produce and update regular reports, budgets and other documents and create an informative bank of resources that we can use internally, as well as provide to external donors. You will also use your theoretical and practical expertise to help us learn from our partners’ realities and our day-to-day work to improve the programme. At the same time, it’s a huge learning opportunity for you.

About you
You’ll probably join us from an NGO, an association or research centre, a government agency or the UN and you might already be a Programme Officer, or alternatively a Compliance or Finance Officer interested in moving into a more general development role. But no matter what your background, you must have a proven interest in Monitoring and Evaluation, a good understanding of the difficulties faced in Angola, and the experience of supporting development programmes, preferably in Africa. Liaising effectively with colleagues and outside organisations, you’ll need to be confident in networking and your results-orientation skills and desire to learn will help you deliver excellent standards of administrative support, as well as act on your own initiative. And, as you will work daily with our partners in Angola and spend up to 30 days a year in Angola itself, you’ll need excellent written and spoken Portuguese as well as a flexible attitude towards travel.

About Christian Aid
More than half the world lives in poverty. We aim to put a stop to that. So we campaign against the inequalities that keep people poor and we work with local organisations to give people strength to find their own solutions to the problems they face, irrespective of their religion. If you’re as determined as we are to end poverty and injustice across the world, work with us to make change happen.

About the rewards
We value the input of everyone who works for us. That’s why you can expect a wide range of rewards including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan and the flexibility that helps you enjoy a good work/life balance. To find out more and apply, download an application pack at

Reference number: 008/EC
Closing date: 12 noon, Monday 10 May 2010
Interview date: 19 May 2010
This is a fixed term contract until December 2011

Protesters have gathered in central Cairo to condemn calls by two Egyptian politicians and officials loyal to Hosni Mubarak, the president, for security forces to open fire on pro-democracy demonstrations. About 70 people joined the protest on Tuesday, the third in two weeks calling for greater political freedoms and an end to an emergency law that allows indefinite detentions.

Since its first edition in 2008, Bayimba Cultural Foundation has organised a number of workshops prior to the annual Bayimba International Festival of Music and Arts with a view to stimulate artistic creativity and to ensure that all disciplines of arts find their way to the Festival. For 2010, Bayimba Cultural Foundation decided to include a Photography Workshop prior to the 3rd edition of the Festival (scheduled for 17-19 September, 2010). The results of the workshop will be exhibited during the Festival and in other locations after the Festival.

The Harare International Festival of the Arts roars into life on April 27 at venues in and around the capital. Festival organisers held a pre-launch press briefing on Friday April 9th 2010 at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe where they unveiled the festival programme.

The Zanzibar International Film Festival is the largest multi disciplinary art and cultural festival in Africa. Dedicated to the exhibition of films, music and Panorama, each year over 150 films made in Africa, Middle East, Europe, Latin America, USA and Asia are exhibited. Currently ZIFF is accepting applications for all African films and films from the Dhow Countries region - South East Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, The Persian Gulf, Iran, Pakistan, and the Indian Ocean Islands.

Accompanied by Nomie, a Chinese female translator, Owen Grafham describes interacting with Chinese migrant workers in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.

A new piece of kit in the form of a backpack could help small farmers in Kenya increase yields, profits and agricultural know-how in a sustainable way. The backpacks, weighing 15-42 kg, contain things which help farmers bring a crop to harvest, including tools, a training manual and, in some versions, a collapsible water tank. They are designed for small plots of land and are currently being used in the Mau Forest region.

2010 is not shaping up to be a good year for satellite operators and resellers in Africa. There have been rumours that for the first time one operators’ sales in the continent have slipped down several percentage points. This year sees the arrival of four more international fibre cables: Glo One, Main One, EASSy and LION. Balancing Act’s latest report – African Fibre and Satellite Markets – takes the temperature of the current market and seeks to predict where things will be in three years time.

2010 is not shaping up to be a good year for satellite operators and resellers in Africa. There have been rumours that for the first time one operators’ sales in the continent have slipped down several percentage points. This year sees the arrival of four more international fibre cables: Glo One, Main One, EASSy and LION. Balancing Act’s latest report – African Fibre and Satellite Markets – takes the temperature of the current market and seeks to predict where things will be in three years time.

A resident magistrate in the southern Tanzania region of Ruvuma has sentenced a group of 74 Ethiopian nationals to six months imprisonment or a fine of 10,000 shillings (approximately US$10) for illegal entry into the country.

An extensive study of rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), commissioned by Oxfam and conducted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, shows that 60 percent of rape victims surveyed were gang raped by armed men and more than half of assaults took place in the supposed safety of the family home at night, often in the presence of the victim's husband and children.

Amkeni Wakenya is a UNDP led Facility set up to promote democratic governance in Kenya. The name Amkeni Wakenya is inspired by the second stanza of the National Anthem that calls upon all Kenyans to actively participate in nation building. Amkeni Wakenya primarily works through Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in recognition of the significant role that they play in ensuring that the aspirations of Kenyans are taken into consideration in the democratization process.

Oxfam GB’s Global Centre of Learning on HIV and AIDS, based in the Pretoria Regional Office, seeks to recruit a Grant Manager to manage the CS Health Policy Action Fund supported by WHO. The grant was awarded in recognition of Oxfam’s growing record of work on health in international development, covering issues related to health systems strengthening (particularly health financing and health care delivery), access to medicines, sexual and reproductive health and HIV and AIDS

The University of Texas at Austin scholars to submit conference papers for the 2011 conference on Africa in World Politics. The goal of this conference is to create an interdisciplinary dialogue concerning Africa's contemporary and historical place in world politics.

Individuals from all African countries are invited to apply for admission to study for the Master‚s Degree (LLM) in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa

FEMNET has been spearheading the process of mobilizing women in Africa to engage in the monitoring of the aid effectiveness agenda. The purpose is to ensure that gender and human rights perspectives in the aid effectiveness agenda take centre stage in the discourse. The other objective is to influence donors implementing the PD and AAA to adopt gender equality and women’s empowerment indicators as one way of assessing development effectiveness.

Our country is in crisis. The internal contradictions of the African National Congress have bought it to the point where it is no longer able to give leadership to society. It continues to speak the language of nationalism and national liberation but it has degenerated into an association of predatory elites hell bent on using the state to plunder the society. The gap between the ANC’s language and its practice is now so large that the organisation can no longer speak to the national interest with any conviction, clarity or credibility.

Tens of millions of domestic workers world-wide, and hundreds of thousands in South Africa, suffer exploitation and abuse. Confined within an invisible and poorly regulated segment of the labour market, they are mainly unorganised and without knowledge of their legal rights. The Social Law Project at the University of the Western Cape is hosting a conference in Cape Town on 7-8 May 2010 under the banner "Exploited, undervalued - and essential" as part of an international initiative towards promoting more effective legal protection, decent work and empowerment in the domestic employment sector.