East Africa: Programme officer - ARTICLE 19
2009-10-30 ARTICLE19 is recruiting a Programme Officer to further strengthen our presence in Kenya and East Africa. He/she will ensure ongoing projects are delivered in a timely manner and assist in...
View ArticleKenya: Violent Cartographies Colloquium
2009-10-30 The Institute for Human Security (IHS) will be hosting a multi-disciplinary and multi-genre colloquium on Cultures of Violence /War and Identity on the 3-4 November 2009. The title of the...
View ArticleGlobal: PhD and MA programs in human rights
2009-10-30 The PhD in Human Rights and Peace Studies is the only PhD program of its kind in Asia, while the MA is the longest running graduate degree program in human rights in Asia. These programs...
View ArticleAfrica: Climate Change and Natural Resources
AfricaFocus Bulletin Oct 29, 2009 (091029 2009-10-30 On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe....
View ArticleSouth Africa: Keep Your Chats Exactly That!
2009-10-30 "Keep Your Chats Exactly That!" is a campaign by Women'sNet and Girls'Net that aims to empower young people in the use of the internet and cell phones. It looks at both strategies of...
View ArticleRwanda: Policy vacuum could mean trouble for broadband
2009-10-30 Whatever else it is, information and communications technologies (ICTs) policy-making can often be symbolic, especially in poor countries. The vision is one of social upliftment, and a new...
View ArticleKenya: PesaPal: Kenyan web & mobile payments
2009-10-30 Start local, then Africa, then the world. That’s the mantra app developers in Africa should be repeating to themselves as they build their game changing tools. That’s what Agosta Liko and...
View ArticleGlobal: Global Teenager Project launches new website
2009-10-30 The IICD-supported Global Teenager Project (GTP) has launched a new virtual learning environment to support online classroom discussion on social issues with peers from all over the world....
View ArticleAfrica: Zambia not host next e-Learning Africa
2009-10-30 By hosting the next eLearning Africa, Zambia is confirming its commitment to placing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at the heart of its development projects and is...
View ArticleAfrica: Tanzania first to lower Internet rates
2009-10-30 Tanzania Telecommunication Company Ltd customers will from this month enjoy a 50 per cent cut in Internet charges, making Tanzania the first East African country to lower Internet charges....
View ArticleSomalia: "Too much, too soon" as 15,000 flee floods
2009-10-30 Flash floods caused by four days of torrential rains have displaced more than 15,000 people in the southwestern town of El-Waq near the Kenyan border and submerged most homes and...
View ArticleDRC: Police 'killed' in north DR Congo
2009-10-30 Armed villagers have killed at least 47 policemen who were trying to intervene in ethnic clashes in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, reports say. A number of civilians were also...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Ruling party militants violently assault radio journalist
2009-10-30 Gibril Gottor, a reporter for Radio Kolenten, based in the Kambia district of northwestern Sierra Leone, was violently assaulted by a group of men on 10 October 2009 for allegedly...
View ArticleNiger: Publisher freed after more than two months in custody
2009-10-30 Reporters Without Borders has noted the release from prison of Abdoulaye Tiémogo, editor of the independent weekly Le Canard déchaîné, after his sentence was reduced on appeal. The...
View ArticleMorocco: Newspapers crippled by legal action; journalist jailed
2009-10-30 Fifty-seven IFEX members and other rights organisations joined the Arab Network for Human Rights (ANHRI) to condemn the recent targeting of Moroccan journalists who have been hit with...
View ArticleAfrica: EU should provide more support for media freedom
2009-10-30 ARTICLE 19 joins with the Africa Forum for Media Development, the African Media Initiative, the Global Forum for Media Development, the International Federation of Journalists and the World...
View ArticleAfrica: Protect small farmers: 27 groups tell African leaders
2009-10-30 Twenty-seven civil society groups, among them, Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) rose from a brain-storming session in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, with a call on governments in...
View ArticleAfrica: Land grab ‘in the public interest'
An issue of democracy and sustainable development 2009-10-30 When in 2008 the government of Madagascar agreed a deal with Korean Daewoo Logistics for the company to access 1.3 million hectares of...
View ArticleWest Africa: Firestone in Liberia 'pollution'
2009-10-30 An investigation by the government in Liberia has concluded that the Firestone Rubber Plantation Company has polluted local water sources. The three-month investigation found that a plant...
View ArticleUganda: Reducing run-off to protect Lake Victoria
2009-10-30 The Ggaba landing site on Lake Victoria is the nearest wholesale fish market to the Ugandan capital, Kampala. More than 6,000 people live and work in this fishing community. The water looks...
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