The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa
Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839
CONTENTS: 1. Action alerts, 2. Announcements, 3. Zimbabwe update, 4.
African Union Monitor, 5. Women & gender, 6. Human rights, 7. Refugees
& forced migration, 8. Social movements, 9. Africa labour news, 10.
Emerging powers news, 11. Africom Watch, 12. Elections & governance,
13. Corruption, 14. Development, 15. Health & HIV/AIDS, 16. LGBTI, 17.
Racism & xenophobia, 18. Environment, 19. Land & land rights, 20. Food
Justice, 21. Media & freedom of expression, 22. News from the
diaspora, 23. Conflict & emergencies, 24. Internet & technology, 25.
eNewsletters & mailing lists, 26. Fundraising & useful resources, 27.
Courses, seminars, & workshops, 28. Publications, 29. Jobs
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Highlights from this issue
ACTION ALERTS: Give Nigeria a voice at Chevron?s AGM
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fahamu launches new Refugee e-newsletter
ZIMBABWE UPDATE: WOZA members arrested
WOMEN & GENDER: Report reveals shocking patter of rape in DRC
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Niger Delta: Ceasefire?
HUMAN RIGHTS: Stop brutality against Samburu people in Kenya
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: Tanzania grants citizenship to Burundian refugees
EMERGING POWERS NEWS: Emerging powers news roundup
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: Angola?s civil society achieves unprecedented victories
AFRICA LABOUR NEWS: Gabon ready for dialogue as oil workers begin strike
AFRICOM WATCH: Obama expands military involvement in Africa
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: Nine killed as Sudan polls end
HEALTH & HIV/AIDS: No excuse for neglect women, activists say
CORRUPTION: Nigerian Ex-governor wanted for alleged corruption
DEVELOPMENT: Africa looks to nuclear power
LGBTI: Continent-wide upsurge in homophobia a tragedy
RACISM & XENOPHOBIA: Xenophobia hitting asylum-seekers
ENVIRONMENT: Malawi, UNDP sign climate change deal
LAND & LAND RIGHTS: Land grabs continue as elites resist regulation
FOOD JUSTICE: Programmes addresses underlying causes of hunger in Uganda
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Moroccans group to fight for free speech
NEWS FROM THE DIASPORA: African diplomats reject EU anit-Cuba resolution
INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY: New Broadband network for Africa approved
ENEWSLETTERS & MAILING LISTS: AfricaFocus Bulletin: Africa: Profiling
cash drains
PLUS: jobs, fundraising & useful resources, publications, courses,
seminars and workshops
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1 Action alerts
GIVE NIGERIA A VOICE AT CHEVRON’S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Help give Nigeria a voice at Chevron’s Annual General Meeting this
year by donating your frequent flyer miles or proxy vote to the JINN
delegation. Each year, Chevron stakeholders gather for the company’s
Annual General Meeting at the end of May.
Shareholders have the opportunity to speak—or to donate their shares
to allow others to speak at the meeting as their proxy. JINN needs
your help in increasing Nigeria’ representation at the meeting by
providing proxy votes and frequent flyer miles. If you own shares in
Chevron and wish to donate your proxy vote, or if you have frequent
flyer miles on any airline, please contact Abby at (415) 990-0792 or
abby@justiceinnigerianow.org
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2 Announcements
FAHAMU LAUNCHES NEW REFUGEE E-NEWSLETTER!
www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/477/FRefENewsMar2010.pdf
Fahamu?s Refugee Programme is pleased to introduce the Fahamu Refugee
e-Newsletter (www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/477/FRefENewsMar2010.pdf
) , a monthly publication that aims to provide a forum for providers
of refugee legal aid. With a focus on the global South, it aims to
serve the needs of legal aid providers as well as raise awareness of
refugee concerns among the wider readership of Pambazuka News. The
e-Newsletter will follow recent developments in the interpretation of
refugee law; case law precedents from other constituencies; reports
and helpful resources for refugee legal aid NGOs; and stories of
struggle and success in refugee legal aid work. It welcomes
contributions from legal aid providers, refugees, and others
interested or involved in refugee legal aid.
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PAN-AFRICAN DIARY 2011: CALL FOR ENTRIES
Pambazuka Press is planning to publish a Pan-African activists’ diary
for 2011. The diary will be a handbook of key information about
Pan-African history, quotations from thinkers and activists (women and
men) in Africa and the diaspora, pictures of critical events in our
past, information about key events during 2011, and lots more.
EVENTS
If you would like us to include events ? meetings, conferences,
festivals, actions, courses, publications etc – that your organisation
is planning to hold in 2011, please send details to panafdiary [at]
pambazuka [dot] org.
QUOTATIONS
If you would like to suggest quotations for publication in the diary,
please send them to panafdiary [at] pambazuka [dot]org. Make sure you
include the source of each quote so that those who want to read more
will know where to find it.
SUGGESTIONS
If you have suggestions about information you would like to see in the
diary, please send them to panafdiary[at] pambazuka [dot] org.
Help make this diary the essential handbook for all activists in
Africa and the diaspora. Make sure you get your recommendations in to
us by 14 April 2010. Don?t be left out ? let us know what events you
are planning for 2011.
We can?t guarantee that we will include everything you suggest, but
we?ll do our best!
The 2011 Pan-African Diary: the essential tool for freedom and justice!
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3 Zimbabwe update
61 WOZA MEMBERS RELEASED – 4 CHARGED, REMAIN IN CUSTODY
61 of the 65 members, including juveniles, arrested outside ZESA
headquarters in Harare earlier today have been released without
charge. Four members, Jenni Williams, Magodonga Mahlangu, Clara
Manjengwa and Celina Madukani, remain in custody and will spend the
night in cells. They are being charged with participating in an
illegal gathering.
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WOZA AND MOZA DELIVER YELLOW CARDS TO ZESA IN HARARE – 70 ARRESTED
At noon April 15, 500 members of Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise
marched to the offices of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority
(ZESA), Megawatt House, in Harare. Three simultaneous protests
converged at the ZESA headquarters where the peaceful group handed
over ?yellow cards? to staff members of the electricity service
provider along with a report that outlines WOZA?s demands.
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4 African Union Monitor
THE AFRICAN UNION AND SECURITY SECTOR REFORM
While the AU?s attempt is encouraging, it has shortcomings, and a case
can be made that SSR requires a new approach and mechanism and should
be supported in a much more strategic, patient and regional manner.
Africa is the largest ?market? for SSR and SSR-related services.
African ownership, however, remains limited. The AU should provide
that.
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5 Women & gender
DRC: NEW REPORT SHOWS ‘SHOCKING PATTERN OF RAPE’ IN EASTERN CONGO
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.
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GLOBAL: AGRICULTURE: FAO SHARPENS FOCUS ON GENDER PERFORMANCE IN AGRICULTURE
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said that its new
toolkit will highlight anti-hunger and development efforts by helping
countries gather more accurate information on differences between men
and women in agriculture.
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MOZAMBIQUE: GUEBUZA HONOURED
Femmes Africa Solidarit? has honoured the Mozambique’s President,
Armando Emilio Guebuza, with its African Gender Award, for his efforts
in championing wider participation of women in his government. The
award came on 4 April, just a few days before the southern African
nation celebrates its national Women’s Day on 7 April, which
acknowledges efforts of women in the liberation struggle.
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ZAMBIA: FIRST LADY BEMOANS HIGH MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE
www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=6&id=1270801254
First Lady Thandiwe Banda has said Zambia has one of the highest
maternal mortality rates in the world and that safe motherhood is
still far from being assured. Ms Banda was speaking in Lusaka when she
officiated at the opening of a media capacity building workshop on the
campaign for accelerated reduction of maternal mortality in Africa
(CARMMA).
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6 Human rights
KENYA: MORE THAN 50,000 AT RISK OF IMMINENT FORCED EVICTION
Kenya’s government should halt the proposed eviction of more than
50,000 people living alongside the country’s railway lines until
guidelines that conform with international human rights standards have
been adopted, Amnesty International said on Thursday. On 21 March
Kenya Railways published a notice giving residents 30 days to pull
down their structures and leave, or risk prosecution. Most of those
affected are slum dwellers in parts of Nairobi.
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KENYA: STOP BRUTALITY AGAINST SAMBURU PEOPLE
In January, 2010, a team from Cultural Survival’s Global Response
program went to Kenya to document a year-long pattern of brutal police
assaults on the Samburu people of northern Kenya. These assaults,
which include killing, raping, beating, and wholesale robbery, take
place in an atmosphere of racial prejudice and discrimination against
pastoralist tribes that resist assimilation and westernization in
order to maintain their unique cultures. Kenyan police forces operate
with impunity throughout the country, but in northern Kenya their
brutality targets a specific ethnic community in violation of their
rights as Indigenous Peoples.
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LIBYA: GOVERNMENT FREES ‘INSULTING’ DISSIDENT JAMAL AL-HAGGI
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8620775.stm
A court in Libya has freed a dissident who faced 15 years in jail for
complaining he was tortured in prison.
Jamal al-Haggi was acquitted of charges that he insulted judicial
officials, Human Rights Watch said.
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SENEGAL: ?OFF THE BACKS OF THE CHILDREN?
www.hrw.org/en/node/89479/section/8
Hundreds of marabouts in Senegal subject talib?s living under their de
facto guardianship to conditions akin to slavery. They force the
children to perform a worst form of child labor?begging on the streets
for long hours?and subject them to often brutal physical and
psychological abuse, all within a climate of fear
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SOMALIA: UNHCR CONDEMNS VICTIMIZATION OF CIVILIANS
www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MDCS-84KEMR?OpenDocument
UNHCR is shocked by the further loss of civilian lives we’ve seen from
fighting in Mogadishu earlier this week. More than 30 people are
reported killed, many of them civilians including children. From local
sources we understand that medical facilities are having difficulties
coping with the many wounded. Residents have described this week’s
shelling as among the worst in months.
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7 Refugees & forced migration
EAST AFRICA: TANZANIA GIVES CITIZENSHIP TO 162,000 BURUNDI REFUGEES
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8625429.stm
The UN has praised Tanzania for granting citizenship to some 162,000
refugees who fled Burundi 38 years ago. “It’s the most generous
naturalisation of refugees anywhere,” said UN refugee agency
spokeswoman Melissa Fleming.
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EGYPT: DON’T DEPORT DARFUR REFUGEES TO FACE PERSECUTION
The Egyptian authorities should immediately cease deportation
proceedings against two refugees from Darfur, Human Rights Watch has
said. Egyptian authorities are preparing to deport Mohammad Adam
Abdallah and Ishaq Fadl Ahmad Dafa Allah back to Sudan, where they
would face persecution. Both men have been granted formal refugee
status by the United Nations refugee agency, which should protect them
from deportation.
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EGYPT: IRAQI CHILDREN ARRESTED, DETAINED AND THREATENED WITH REFOULEMENT
Egyptian Foundation for Refugee Rights
On 4 April 2010 Egyptian State security arrested Karar from the street
while he was returning from a bank to his home. Karar is a secondary
school student and was in the midst of preparations for the final
secondary completion exams.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/refugees/63759
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HORN OF AFRICA: PUNTLAND BEGINS REPATRIATING ETHIOPIAN MIGRANTS
www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88694
Authorities in Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland
have begun repatriating hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, officials have
reported. “These are people who decided they wanted to return but
could not afford to do so,” said Mohamud Jama Muse, director of the
Migration Response Centre (MRC) in Bosasso, Puntland’s capital.
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KENYA: A VOICE FROM THE VOICELESS: DADAAB REFUGEE CAMPS
A letter from the camps
With humble respect, on behalf of the refugees living in the camps of
Dadaab, we would like to share our grievances with the world and ask
for you to help us find our way to freedom. Our lives in the camps are
far worse than you can imagine. We live in an open prison, far away
from justice and humanity. We talk, but our voices are never heard. We
move, but only inside a cage. We have many skills and talents, but we
are denied our chance to maximize our potential. We are chained to a
life full of stress and despair; a life for which many would prefer
death. We are denied opportunities for education and employment. We
live in a condition without adequate water, food, or health
facilities. We are arbitrarily beaten or detained by police within the
confines of the camp. We lack the ability to freely express ourselves
or have control over the decisions affecting our lives.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/refugees/63737
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TANZANIA: 74 ETHIOPIAN MIGRANTS JAILED FOR ILLEGAL ENTRY
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.
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ZAMBIA: UNRULY REFUGEES SENT HOME
www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88831
A shadow has fallen over Zambia’s long history of generously hosting
refugees from troubled countries since 36 foreigners were deported to
neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the government
says it is only trying to ensure security and order in camps that
still shelter some 57,000 people. “We are hoping that [deportations]
will stop,” said James Lynch, country representative for the UN
Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Zambia. The organization communicated its
alarm at the expulsions to the Zambian authorities on 13 April.
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8 Social movements
ANGOLA: UNPRECEDENTED VICTORIES ACHIEVED BY CIVIL SOCIETY
Civil society organisations in Angola gave a lesson of citizenship,
courageously marching to say ?Don?t Push Down My House?.The
demonstration finally and peacefully took place in the coastal city of
Benguela. Despite of the ban announced by the provincial government,
the march managed to break the silence and voice the protest against
the brutal house demolitions and forced land evictions that have
become a regular occurrence in Angola in the last years.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/socialmovements/63739
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SOUTH AFRICA: REALLY, IT IS A SHAME
South Africans are facing tough times. It is a time when there is no
humanity, a time when no one in government is interested to listen to
your story if you are a poor person. There are good thinkers in this
country, but if their ideologies are coming from the bottom up, from
poor communities, no one is prepared to listen carefully.
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9 Africa labour news
GABON: GOVERNMENT READY FOR DIALOGUE AS OIL WORKERS BEGIN STRIKE
As the indefinite strike called by Gabon’s oil workers entered day two
Thursday, the government has said it is willing to resume dialogue to
end the strike. “The government solemnly reaffirms its preparedness to
resume the dialogue,” said a statement by Labour Minister Maxime Ngozo
Issondou.
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10 Emerging powers news
EMERGING ACTORS IN AFRICA NEWS ROUND-UP
In this week’s roundup of emerging actors news, Three steps to
unleashing Africa’s genius, China is ready for Ghanaian entrepreneurs,
South Africa and China sign trade deals worth R2,3bn, Africa and India
to boost cooperation in agricultural technologies for smallholder
farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/emplayersnews/63757
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11 Africom Watch
AFRICA: OBAMA EXPANDS MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN AFRICA
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50898
When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, it was widely
expected that he would dramatically change, or even reverse, the
militarised and unilateral security policy that had been pursued by
the George W. Bush administration toward Africa, as well as toward
other parts of the world.
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12 Elections & governance
DRC: A STALLED DEMOCRATIC AGENDA
www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6614&l=1
This latest briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines the
failure of the leaders elected in 2006 to radically change governance
and to fulfil the democratic aspirations of their citizens. Nearly
four years after Joseph Kabila won the presidency in elections hailed
as a milestone in the peace process, power is being centralised at the
presidential office, checks and balances barely exist, and civil
liberties are regularly undermined, despite growing signs that the
regime is unable to manage local conflicts.
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ETHIOPIA: ZENAWI WARNS OPPONENTS AGAINST VIOLENCE AHEAD OF ELECTIONS
Ethiopia?s premier Meles Zenawi on Tuesday strongly warned opposition
parties against any violence ahead of the parliamentary and
presidential elections in Ethiopia on 23 May. In a rather harsh
parliamentary debate after he presented the government?s annual report
to the House, opposition MPs bombarded Zenawi with accusations that
his government and party members had continued to intimidate their
members.
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GUINEA: GOVERNMENT BANS UNAUTHORISED DEMONSTRATIONS
Guinean Minister of Territorial Administration and Political Affairs,
Nawa Damey, on Monday urged political parties to put an end to
“unauthorised demonstrations” which could cause traffic jam in
Conakry, the capital. In the statement, read on the State Radio, the
Minister called on political lead ers to exercise restraint and
understanding in their activities so that they could make their
contributions towards building a peaceful political transition in the
country.
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KENYA: GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES ELECTRONIC REGISTER TO CURB POLL FRAUD
Prime Minister Raila Odinga became the first Kenyan to register
electronically as a voter following the introduction of a landmark
electronic register, aimed at curbing fraud in future elections, which
led to widespread chaos in 2008. Odinga, who led the opposition Orange
Democratic Movement (ODM) during the 2007 Presidential elections,
hailed the introduction of the electronic voter register as a historic
step towards changing Kenya’s previously flawed elections, leading to
chaos.
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KENYA: GOVERNMENT TO DISSOLVE TRUTH, RECONCILIATION BODY
Disturbed by the failure of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
Commission (TJRC) to discharge its duties, the Kenyan government has
now initiated the process of disbanding the body. Justice, National
Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Mutula Kilonzo, under
whose docket the TJRC falls, said Thursday that he had asked the
Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs to work on modalities of
disbanding the Commission.
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MADAGASCAR: LEADER TO DISBAND GOVERNMENT
Madagascar’s leader has vowed to disband his internationally rejected
government and form an interim body with an ousted opposition leader
following an ultimatum from the army to solve a festering crisis.
Analysts say there has been growing unease in some quarters of the
government and military, and increased international pressure on Andry
Rajoelina to solve the crisis, which has unnerved investors in the
island’s oil and mineral resources.
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SUDAN: NINE KILLED AS POLLS END
Nine people were killed, including a member of President Omar
al-Beshir’s National Congress Party, as violence broke out on Thursday
that was unrelated to nationwide elections, according to the southern
Sudan army. The country held its first national election in 24 years.
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SUDAN: PRESIDENT ASKS OPPOSITION TO JOIN GOVERNMENT
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8621332.stm
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has asked opposition parties to join
his government if he wins landmark elections currently under way. With
polling due to end on Thursday, Mr Bashir has extended an offer to
other parties to join his ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
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SUDAN: VIOLENCE MARS LAST DAY OF VOTE
Sudan?s ruling party has said that the southern army had killed nine
people, including at least five of its officials, stoking tensions
during voting in the first open elections in 24 years. Oil-producing
Sudan entered the last of a five days of presidential and legislative
polls that mark a key test of stability for Africa?s largest country,
emerging from decades of civil war and preparing for a 2011 southern
referendum on independence.
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UGANDA: BESIGYE ANGER AT LACK OF ELECTION REFORM
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8625117.stm
Uganda’s main opposition leader Kizza Besigye had told the BBC of his
anger that proposed electoral reforms have not even been debated in
parliament. Dr Besigye was talking after being re-elected leader of
his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party
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13 Corruption
NIGERIA: EX-GOVERNOR WANTED FOR ALLEGED CORRUPTION
Nigeria’s anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commi ssion (EFCC)
has declared the immediate past governor of oil-rich Delta State,
James Ibori, wanted for alleged official corruption and money
laundering. An EFCC statement said a court warrant had been obtained
for the arrest of the governor, who was earlier freed of a 170-count
charge of corruption against him by a court. EFCC has appealed against
the ruling.
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TANZANIA: CORRUPTION IN HOUSING: IS NHC A DEN OF CORRUPTION?
The public outcry of alleged entrenched corruption in Tanzania?s
National Housing Corporation (NHC) appears to have reached
catastrophic proportions with helpless victims alleging that the vice
is so extensive and deeply rooted to the marrow of this giant state
corporation
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TANZANIA: SFO FACES POTENTIAL SUIT OVER CORRUPT TANZANIA RADAR CASE
The corruption money would have constructed over 5,400 classrooms,
paid 315,000 teachers, provided over 7.4million families with treated
anti malaria mosquito nets?. The Tanzania corrupt Radar scandal
appears to be taking a new twist as the notorious British Serious
Fraud Office (SFO) now faces a potential legal suit over the manner in
which it handled the corruption case involving the British Aero Space
(BAE)
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14 Development
AFRICA: AFRICA LOOKS TO NUCLEAR POWER
www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2010/0402/Africa-looks-to-nuclear-power
Nuclear power holds promise for 10 African countries now in pursuit of
building their own nuclear plants. Wind and solar solutions aren’t
reliable enough, planners say, nor do they offer adequate electricity.
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ANGOLA: OIL WEALTH ELUDES NATION?S POOR
The government of Angola has not done enough to combat pervasive
corruption and mismanagement, Human Rights Watch has said in a report.
Even though the oil-rich country’s gross domestic product has
increased by more than 400 percent in the last six years, Angolans are
not seeing their lives improve accordingly, Human Rights Watch said.
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EAST AFRICA: RWANDA RECEIVES $121.6 MLN FROM WORLD BANK
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE63F0IF20100416
Rwanda and the World Bank on Friday signed two grants totalling $121.6
million to support the land-locked nation’s budget as it recovers from
the global downturn and aid reforms. Mimi Ladipo, the World Bank’s
country manager in Rwanda said $115.6 was earmarked to bolster the
2009/10 budget, a little higher than the previous fiscal year because
it included almost $30 million to help mitigate the impact of the
global downturn.
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GLOBAL: 2010 ECOSOC HIGH LEVEL SEGMENT (HLS)
Open call for oral and written statements
esango.un.org/irene/?page=static&content=statements
The NGO Branch of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs is pleased to announce an open call for oral and written
statements for the 2010 ECOSOC High Level Segment (HLS) for NGOs in
ECOSOC consultative status. The HLS will include sessions on the
Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) and the Development Cooperation Forum
(DCF).
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GLOBAL: CLIMATE AID THREAT TO COUNTRIES THAT REFUSE TO BACK COPENHAGEN ACCORD
Rich countries have threatened to cut vital aid to the developing
nations if they do not back the deal agreed at the UN climate summit
in Copenhagen, it has emerged. The pressure on poor countries to
support the US, EU and UK-brokered Copenhagen accord came as 190
countries resumed UN climate talks in Bonn in an atmosphere of mutual
suspicion.
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GLOBAL: TAMING THE DEBT VULTURES
www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88800
A so-called Vulture Funds bill – to stop finance companies using
British courts to extort excessive debt repayments from some of the
world’s poorest countries – was passed in the frantic scramble to
finish outstanding parliamentary business before Britain’s general
election in May.
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KENYA: LIGHTWEIGHT KIT FOR SMALL FARMERS
www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88823
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.
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15 Health & HIV/AIDS
AFRICA: TANZANIAN PRESIDENT RAISES ALARM ON HIV/AIDS IN AFRICAN ARMIES
HIV/AIDS could pose a security concern in Africa due to high infection
rates among military forces, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has
cautioned, saying the loss of personnel not only af fected military
preparedness but also increased costs of recruitment and training of
replacements.
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GLOBAL: ?NO JUSTIFICATION FOR NEGLECTING WOMEN?
www.health-e.org.za/news/article.php?uid=20032738
Activists have cautioned that the Gates Foundation funded study,
released today in The Lancet and showing welcome progress on reducing
maternal mortality globally, also reveals one catastrophic exception.
They said that current global AIDS programmes were reminiscent of the
Victorian era, casting pregnant women as potential vectors of disease,
and ignoring their health in the single-minded rush to achieve a 2010
goal of preventing the transmission of HIV to their babies.
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KENYA: FUNDING THREATENS AIDS PREVENTION
ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=50892
Pregnant mothers who are HIV-positive could soon find it challenging
to access life-saving HIV drugs because Kenya was denied 270 million
dollars in funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria. The Global Fund cited the existence of two ministries of
health and the jostling between them over control of funds as a major
source of concern.`
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LIBYA: CRITICS DISPUTE HEALTH CARE QUALITY REPORTS
Libyans are criticising an April 4th government report that describes
the country’s health care as expansive and top-of-the-line. “Reports
like this are created at a time of need to tell lies,” Libyan rights
activist Mohammed Sehim said.
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MALAWI: COURT CASE DRIVES MSM DEEPER UNDERGROUND
www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=88663
An engagement ceremony has landed a same-sex Malawian couple in jail,
propelled their country into international headlines, and pushed men
who have sex with men (MSM) further towards society’s risky margins.
Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were arrested and charged with
sodomy and indecency after their public engagement in late December
2009.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: MALAWI TO OUTLAW POLYGAMY
The Malawi government will soon draft a law that will outlaw polygamy.
Minister of Gender, Women and Children Development Patricia Kaliati
said the move intends to help stop growing rates in HIV and AIDS
cases.
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ZAMBIA: MSF RESPONDS TO WORST CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN YEARS
www.health-e.org.za/news/article.php?uid=20032732
In Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF)
is responding to the worst cholera outbreaks in the country for many
years. Over the last five weeks the number of cholera cases has risen
dramatically to more than 4,500, while more than 120 people have lost
their lives. Despite hopes that the outbreak has reached its peak the
previous week and that the number of cholera cases will start
decreasing, heavy rains that continue to cause severe floods in the
city could potentially worsen the situation in the coming weeks.
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16 LGBTI
AFRICA: CONTINENT-WIDE UPSURGE IN HOMOPHOBIA A TRAGEDY
?I AM? ? Inclusive and Affirming Ministries
In the wake of a continent-wide upsurge in homophobia with Zimbabwe?s
leaders Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai being the most recent to
put there voices to it, Rev. Pieter Oberholzer and gay Christian
activist, Victor Mukasa, were chased away ?like lepers? from a
consultative meeting on homosexuality held on 16th March in Malawi.
They?ve been attending on invitation of secretary-general Canaan Phiri
of the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), who organised the event.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/lgbti/63744
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KENYA: IGLHRC SLAMS ANTI-GAY WEBSITE
www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=kenya&id=2549
A gay rights activist in Kenya is receiving death threats and has been
attacked on several occasions by random people who have seen and read
about him in an anti-gay website that publishes and puts up posters of
suspected homosexuals in different cities of Kenya, as ?NOT WANTEDs?.
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
revealed this week, as it denounced the website
www.projectsee.com , stating that it is a violation of rights
and that it victimises people, in the name of religion.
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SOUTH AFRICA: GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT CORRECTIVE RAPE
www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=southafrica&id=2551
As the case of Millicent Gaika (30), a Cape Town lesbian who was
beaten up and raped by a man known to her, is presently being heard at
Wynberg Court, government has condemned the ongoing acts of
?corrective rape? in the country and has vowed to put an end to them.
After the man was arrested, the case was first heard at the Wynberg
Court on Tuesday, 6 April but was postponed to today, Tuesday 13
April. Speaking outside the court where people are marching in support
of Gaika, Ndumi Funda of Lulek?isisizwe LBT Women?s Project said, ?We
are strongly opposing bail for the perpetrator and we want to see
justice being done for Gaika.”
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17 Racism & xenophobia
GLOBAL: XENOPHOBIA HITTING ASYLUM SEEKERS: UNHCR
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE63F0ES20100416
Asylum seekers are being thrown out of some countries because of a
rise in xenophobia and political campaigns that use foreigners as
scapegoats, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) chief said. Asylum and
immigration are sensitive issues in many countries, such as Italy and
Greece, which say they cannot cope with hundreds of thousands of
people arriving as potential illegal migrants, often on rickety boats
from Africa.
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18 Environment
AFRICA: MALAWI, UNDP SIGN $4.2M CLIMATE CHANGE DEAL
Malawi and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has signed a
formulation phase project document for managing climate change in the
country to be implemented to a tune of $4.2 million
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KENYA: EXTREME WEATHER TESTS PASTORALIST PERCEPTIONS
www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88815
The effects of climate change – such as drought, livestock deaths and
resource conflict – may be all too apparent for the pastoralists of
northern Kenya, but there is much to be done to explain the true
causes. “We were warned about the current situation by our elders and
spiritual leaders when I was very young. This was about 50 years ago
when the Ngishili age groups were born,? Lemeteki Lerinagato, 70, told
IRIN in the Samburu district.
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19 Land & land rights
AFRICA: LAND GRABS CONTINUE AS ELITES RESIST REGULATION
A year after the purchases of vast swathes of farm land in Africa
first drew public attention, transactions remain as opaque as ever.
Private companies are resisting a global code of conduct that would
ensure transparency and local elites continue to benefit from deals
that encourage corruption and increase food insecurity.
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AFRICA: ME?S FARMLAND BUYS SEEN AS ?A WIN-WIN PARTNERSHIP?
The head of a 19-state African trading bloc has denied the Gulf?s
policy of snapping up cheap farmland across the continent is
tantamount to a ?neo-colonialist? land grab. Sindiso Ngwenya,
secretary general of Comesa, which counts Kenya, Egypt, Sudan and
Madagascar among its members, said multimillion-dollar land deals
aimed at securing the Gulf?s food supply provide crucial capital to
overhaul poverty-stricken rural areas and build infrastructure.
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AFRICA: NEW FIAN REPORT ON LAND GRABBING IN KENYA AND MOZAMBIQUE
On the International Day of Peasants? Struggle, April 17, FIAN
International together with many other civil society actors calls for
an immediate stop of land grabbing. A new report published by FIAN
International documents the findings of two research missions on land
grabbing to Kenya and Mozambique, and concludes that land grabbing
violates human rights.
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BOTSWANA: PUMA URGED TO DISINVEST OVER CONTROVERSIAL TOURIST LODGE ON
BUSHMAN LAND
www.survivalinternational.org/news/5804
Survival is appealing to sports giant Puma to disinvest from tourism
company Wilderness Safaris over a lodge it has built on land belonging
to the Bushmen of Botswana. Puma bought a 20% stake in the company via
a private placement shortly before its listing on the Botswana and
Johannesburg stock exchanges on 8th April.
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KENYA: CITADEL TURNS TO AGRICULTURE IN SEARCH OF INVESTMENT
Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital is seeking to buy Kenya?s
firms and long-term land leases as it seeks agro-based raw materials
to feed its food business. Citadel?s consumer food business, Gazour,
is keen to cut reliance on imports to supply its Egyptian plants by
controlling the supply chain from farmer to the shop shelf to protect
it from global commodity price fluctuations
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TANZANIA: AGENCY CALLS FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION TO RISING TENSIONS IN NGORONGORO
International agency Oxfam is deeply concerned with the recent
detention of one of its staff and two colleagues from the Ngorongoro
NGO Network (NGONET) by authorities in Loliondo, following protests by
local women about alleged violations of land rights in the area. The
three were detained on 12 April and released the next day on bail.
Oxfam calls on the authorities to hold an immediate investigation into
the detentions, and take steps to address the concerns of local
communities amid growing tension in the area.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/land/63752
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20 Food Justice
UGANDA: UN PROGRAMME ADDRESSES UNDERLYING CAUSES OF HUNGER
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34362
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching a new
livelihood programme designed to address the underlying causes of food
shortages in Karamoja, the poorest and most marginalised region in
Uganda which has not had a successful harvest in five years and where
more than 80 per cent of the population lives in poverty.
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21 Media & freedom of expression
GAMBIA: GOVERNMENT STILL INVESTIGATING JOURNALIST’S MURDER
The Gambian government has given reasons why investigation into the
murder of journalist Deyda Hydara has not been concluded. According to
the Interior Minister, Ousman Sonko, two key witnesses in the case are
outside the government jurisdiction and attempts to reach them have
been unsuccessful.
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NORTH AFRICA: MOROCCANS FORM GROUP TO FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH
Moroccan journalists, activists and university professors have
launched a new organisation to defend free speech for the press and
the public. The Freedom of Press and Speech Organisation will also
work to influence the development of laws affecting the media, the
group?s founders said at its inaugural press conference Saturday
(April 10th) in Rabat.
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UGANDA: GOVERNMENT PUSHES AHEAD WITH REPRESSIVE MEDIA LAW
ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=51010
The proposed media law is a monster, says Dr George Lugalambi, chair
of a coalition fighting to preserve press freedom in Uganda.
Publishers and journalists would have to apply annually for a licence,
which could be revoked at will in the interests of “national security,
stability and unity,” or if coverage was deemed to be “economic
sabotage.”
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WEST AFRICA: MFWA LAUNCHES FUND FOR MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
The sub- regional rights body, Media Foundation for West Africa
(MFWA), will Tuesday launch the West Africa Media Development Fund
(WAMDEF), aimed at providing ?low-interest credits to address the
financial challenges of small and medium, private and independent
media in West Africa.?
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22 News from the diaspora
AFRICAN DIPLOMATS REJECT ANTI-CUBA RESOLUTION PASSED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
www.ain.cubaweb.cu/idioma/ingles/2010/0413anticuba.htm
The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby,
rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently
approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the
inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference on African
Culture in the Americas that began today in Santiago de Cuba, the
African diplomat spoke on behalf of the ambassadors from Burkina Faso,
Cape Verde and Mozambique, as well as the cultural attach? from
Angola.
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HAITI: WOMEN DEMAND ROLE IN RECONSTRUCTION
www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88662
Women’s civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the
landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of
US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country?s
post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presence at the meeting was
indicative of a broader missing voice in Haiti?s long-term
reconstruction prospects, gender activists argued.
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23 Conflict & emergencies
BURUNDI: STOP PRE-ELECTION VIOLENCE, HOLD PERPETRATORS ACCOUNTABLE
Burundian police and administrative officials must take stronger
measures to prevent and punish pre-election violence, Human Rights
Watch said today. Members of various political parties, especially
their affiliated youth movements, have clashed on a number of
occasions since November 2009. In most cases, police have not
conducted thorough investigations and no one has been held
accountable.
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DRC: UNEASY CALM AFTER FIGHTING IN NORTHWEST
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51054
Fighting between “Eny?l?” insurgents and regular armed forces in the
northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo at the beginning of April
left 18 people dead, including nine rebels, and triggered mass
displacements from the region’s principal city, Mbandaka.
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MOZAMBIQUE: EARTHQUAKES: NOT A MATTER OF IF, BUT WHEN
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50922
Time is everything in responding to a natural disaster. Mozambique’s
disaster management specialists are worried that they are missing key
data on the small tremors that take place almost daily in the
quake-prone country. Three of Mozambique?s five seismic detection
stations are out of order, their seismographs damaged months ago by
lightning and rains.
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NIGERIA: NIGER DELTA: CEASEFIRE?
Stakeholder Democracy Network
The “post amnesty” process that is supposed to be rehabilitating
militants in the Niger Delta continued to face questions throughout
March. Matters were not helped when a gathering of government and
Niger Delta leaders associated with the process in Warri, Delta State,
was interrupted by two car bombs planted by disgruntled militant
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/conflict/63748
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SUDAN: FOUR DARFUR PEACEKEEPERS KIDNAPPED
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8621060.stm
Four peacekeepers with the joint UN-African Union mission in the
Sudanese region of Darfur have been kidnapped, a spokesman for the
force says. The peacekeepers went missing on Sunday and have now been
confirmed as abducted, a spokesman for Unamid.
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24 Internet & technology
AFRICA: NEW BROADBAND NETWORK FOR AFRICA APPROVED
Funding for the first phase of an initiative to connect African
research centres and link them to an existing European network has
been approved by the European Commission. The approval follows a
report that identified sufficient IT infrastructure in Africa to
support the AfricaConnect Initiative, which aims to improve research
collaborations and access to information.
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AFRICA: SATELLITE TO FIBRE ? AFRICA?S BIG CHANGE IS REALLY UNDER WAY,
SAYS NEW REPORT
www.balancingact-africa.com/news/current1.html
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.
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AFRICA: SATELLITE TO FIBRE ? AFRICA?S BIG CHANGE IS REALLY UNDER WAY,
SAYS NEW REPORT
www.balancingact-africa.com/news/current1.html
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.
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GLOBAL: TECHSOUP GLOBAL AND GUIDESTAR INTERNATIONAL COMBINE OPERATIONS
TechSoup Global, the U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that
provides technology resources and knowledge to NGOs around the world,
and GuideStar International, a U.K.-registered charity that promotes
transparency and civil society organization (CSO) reporting, have
announced that they will combine operations in order to strengthen
their respective capacity-building programs for civil society. The two
organizations share a mission to benefit global civil society through
the provision of technology, information, and resources.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/internet/63754
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GLOBAL: THE UNSPOKEN RISKS OF CELL PHONES AND WIRELESS NETWORKS
www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/461.1
Africa has been catapulted into the electronic age over the past
decade and a half by an almost incomprehensibly swift growth in
telecommunications technology driven primarily by a massive rollout of
cell phones and wireless technology throughout the continent.
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KENYA: DIGITAL VILLAGES PROJECT ROLLED OUT
www.balancingact-africa.com/news/current1.html#computing
Each constituency in Kenya will by the end of the year boast of at
least five digital centres complete with computers and Internet
connectivity in a government plan to bridge the IT gap.
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25 eNewsletters & mailing lists
AFRICA: PROFILING CASH DRAINS
AfricaFocus Bulletin Apr 12, 2010 (100412)
www.africafocus.org/docs10/fin1004.php
“Estimates [for the period 1970-2008] show that over the 39-year
period Africa lost an astonishing US$854 billion in cumulative capital
flight—enough to not only wipe out the region’s total external debt
outstanding of around US$250 billion (at end-December, 2008) but
potentially leave US$600 billion for poverty alleviation and economic
growth. Instead, cumulative illicit flows from the continent increased
from about US$57 billion in the decade of the 1970s to US$437 billion
over the nine years 2000-2008.” – report by Global Financial
Integrity.
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26 Fundraising & useful resources
EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE CONSTITUTION REVIEW PROCESS
Call for Proposals from Civil Society Organisations
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.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/fundraising/63745
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KONI – THE PANAFRICAN ALLIANCE OF COLOMBIA
KONI ? The Panafrican Alliance of Colombia is a non-governmental
organization based in Bogota. In the spirit of pan African solidarity
and cooperation, Koni has designed and availed a platform of
technologies and tools for the exchange of ideas, methodologies and
strategies of development on the African continent, and its Diaspora
in Colombia
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27 Courses, seminars, & workshops
AFRICA: 19TH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS MOOT COURT COMPETITION
The 19th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition will be held at
the University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin from 4 – 9 October
2010. The deadline for Faculty registration was 28 February and
individual registration is 15 May 2010.
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AFRICA: LLM IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIZATION
www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/introduction.html#apply
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
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AFRICA: SABBATICAL PROGRAMME FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY RESEARCH
Call for applications
www.arrforum.org/images/call%20for%20application.pdf
The African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF) is a research, data
resource, reflection and policy debate institution devoted to the
resolution of the governance and development issues confronting
policy-makers and societies in the East African Community (EAC) and
the Great Lakes Region. It links scholars, researchers, opinion
leaders and public service functionaries to interact and share ideas.
The Forum also facilitates the evolution of a regional community of
scholars, activists and institutions, with a shared interest in
resolving inter-African development problems.
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AFRICA: UNDERSTANDING THE GREAT LAKES – A NEW FIELD COURSE
Applications are now open for the RVI?s first Great Lakes field
course, to be held from Saturday 17 to Friday 23 July 2010 in
Bujumbura, Burundi. The course is a fast-track, graduate-level
introduction to the history, political economy and culture of Rwanda,
Burundi and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Taught in English and French by a distinguished faculty of
international and regional specialists, the course follows in the
tracks of the acclaimed annual RVI courses on Sudan and the Horn of
Africa. For more information please see Courses or download a
prospectus here. The application deadline is 7 May 2010.
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CODESRIA GENDER INSTITUTE 2010
Theme: Gender and Sports in Africa?s Development
The 2010 Gender Institute selected the theme of Gender and Sports in
Africa?s Development: Towards Gender Equality in Sports in Africa.
This builds on the debates on the same theme held during the 2009
edition of the Annual Gender Symposium held in Cairo in November 2009.
The papers presented at this symposium revealed a marked gender
disparity within the African sports space.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/courses/63680
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GLOBAL: PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES
peaceandconflictstudies.ning.com/
Sydney University?s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies is now
offering its globally renowned Masters program of postgraduate
coursework to students around the world. Graduates enjoy challenging
and rewarding careers in aid and development, in NGOs large and small,
think-tanks, governments, universities and beyond.
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SOUTH AFRICA: CONFERENCE ON THE PLIGHT OF DOMESTIC WORKERS
Cape Town, 7-8 May 2010
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.
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USA AFRICA DIALOGUE SERIES – CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
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.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/courses/63733
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28 Publications
WHO RULES THE WAVES? PIRACY, OVERFISHING AND MINING THE OCEANS
www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745330044&
With piracy raging in the Indian Ocean, international disputes over
undersea oil and gas, and chronic overfishing, the oceans have rarely
been subject to such varied and environmentally damaging conflict
outside a world war. In Who Rules the Waves? Denise Russell gives us a
rare insight into these issues and how they could be resolved.
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29 Jobs
EDITOR – GENDER LINKS
Gender Links, a dynamic Southern African NGO based in Johannesburg
invites applications for the post of Editor of its Opinion and
Commentary Service and related publications. All applications must be
received by close of business on 23 April 2010. Late applications will
not be considered.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/63725
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PAN-AFRICANISTS IN RESIDENCE
Oxfam International Liaison Office with the African Union
The Oxfam International Liaison office with the African Union (OIAU)
would like to put a call for civil society actors or staff of locally
constituted NGOs, and coalitions of organizations who have the mandate
and plan to engage the African Union, to be present in Addis Ababa and
conduct their work. This secondment call is to enable committed and
often disenfranchised communities? representative to get the
opportunity to meet the policy and decision makers at the AU
Commission.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/63726
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SHORT TERM CONSULTANCY WITH FEMNET
Research on the Implementation of AAA in 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.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/63724
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SOUTH AFRICA: GRANT MANAGER REQUIRED URGENTLY (12-MONTHS)
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
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/63741
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WEST AFRICA: PROGRAM CONSULTANT, MANO RIVER UNION
New Field Foundation
New Field Foundation is expanding and deepening its grantmaking to
support rural women and their organizations, families and communities
in West Africa through its Rural Women Creating Change program. We are
seeking a Program Consultant for the Mano River Union, who is familiar
with the realities and potential of rural women in the border region
of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/63749
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