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1.EDITORIAL

WHAT IS PRETORIA PLANNING FOR AFRICA?
By Patrick Bond
Thabo Mbeki is seen as Africa's most legitimate, self-confident and
fundamentally pro-Western leader. If anyone can shake down the World Bank
in Washington for debt cancellation, or the WTO in Geneva for trade
concessions, it's the primary architect of the miracle transition in
recently-liberated South Africa.

Africa needs enormous concessions, thanks to what Mbeki has termed "global
apartheid" and what Washington/Geneva technocrats prefer to laud as
the "Washington Consensus"--or just "globalisation." Africa generates
nearly 30% more exports today than in 1980, yet their value has crashed by
more than 40% because of falling terms of trade.

Likewise, Sub-Saharan Africa's foreign debt rose from US$60 billion to
US$206 bn over the same period notwithstanding 1980s-90s debt repayments of
US$229 bn, thanks to the tyranny of compound interest rates and the near-
universal failure of intervening structural adjustment programmes. Over the
past three years alone, debt repayment by Sub-Saharan African countries was
US$16 billion greater than incoming new loans.

Can Africa's leaders finally, vigorously campaign against such extreme
uneven world capitalist development? Should we draw hope from a "New
Partnership for Africa's Development" ("Nepad"), launched in Abuja, Nigeria
by several African heads of state on October 23? And first of all, what
background should we have about the Nepad process?

From the late 1990s, Mbeki embarked upon an "African Renaissance" branding
exercise with poignant poetics. The contentless form was somewhat remedied
in the secretive Millennial Africa Recovery Programme (with the
acronym "Map"), whose powerpoint skeleton was unveiled to select elites in
2000, during Mbeki's meetings with Bill Clinton in May, the Okinawa G-8 in
July, the UN Millennium Summit in September, and a subsequent European
Union gathering in Portugal.

The skeleton was fleshed out in November 2000 with the assistance of
several economists. It was immediately endorsed during a special South
African visit by World Bank president James Wolfensohn "at an undisclosed
location," due presumably to fears of the disruptive civil-society protests
which had soured a Johannesburg trip by new IMF czar Horst Koehler a few
months earlier.

Thanks to work by a co-author of South Africa's own disastrous 1996
homegrown structural adjustment programme (Stephen Gelb), the content of
the 60-page working document was becoming clearer: more privatisation,
especially of infrastructure (no matter its profound failure as a strategy,
especially in South Africa); more multi-party elections (typically, though,
between variants of neoliberal parties, as in the US) as a veil for the
lack of thorough-going participatory democracy; grand visions of a
developmental kickstart via ICT (hopelessly unrealistic considering the
lack of simple reliable electricity across the continent); more trade with
the North; and a self-mandate for peace-keeping (which South Africa has
subsequently taken for its soldiers stationed in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo and Burundi).

In short, Mbeki dreamed of more globalisation, not less.

By this stage, he had managed to sign on as partners two additional rulers
from the crucial West and North regions of the continent: Abdelaziz
Bouteflika and Olusegun Obasanjo from Nigeria. Unfortunately, both
continued to face mass popular protests and widespread
civil/military/religious bloodshed at home, diminishing their utility as
model African leaders.

Later, to his credit, Obasanjo led a surprise revolt against Mbeki's
capitulation to Northern pressure at the World Conference Against Racism in
September 2001, when he helped generate a split between EU and African
countries over reparations due the continent for slavery and colonialism.
Tellingly, even loose talk of such reparations cannot be found in the
Mbeki's document, and the South African host delegation was furious at
Obasanjo's outburst because it nearly scuppered a final conference
resolution.

But that incident aside, 2001 has been a successful year for selling Nepad.
Another pro-Western ruler, Tanzania's Benjamin Mkapa, joined the New Africa
leadership group in January 2001. Mkapa's government suffers a dreadful
recent human rights record, but he and Mbeki gave the world's leading
capitalists and state elites a briefing in Davos, Switzerland, which was
very poorly-attended. A few days later, an effort was made in Mali to sell
West Africans to the plan, with on-the-spot cheerleading by Wolfensohn and
Koehler.

Then, the July 2001 inaugural meeting of the African Union in Lusaka
provided the opportunity for a continent-wide leadership endorsement, once
Mbeki's plan was merged with the "Omega Plan"--offered by the neoliberal
Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade--to become the New African Initiative.
For a few months until late October, observers termed Mbeki's
initiative "the Nai."

The Genoa G-8 summit offered soothing encouragement. With 300,000
protesters outside the conference accusing the world's main political
leaders of running a destructive, elitist club, Mbeki was a useful
adornment. Likewise, Mbeki's October visits to Japan and Brussels confirmed
his elite popularity, perhaps because there was no apparent demand for
formal monetary commitments at this stage.

A recent surge of enthusiasm from Johannesburg corporations, Washington
multilateral banks, and European capitals deserves much more consideration
than I have space for here, particularly given the geopolitical give-and-
take associated with George W. Bush's "anti-terror" coalition-building. But
to sum up the ideological partnership that Mbeki proposes, consider the way
that the 1980s-90s recolonisation of African economic policy is explained
on the website version of Nepad:

"The structural adjustment programmes provided only a partial solution.
They promoted reforms that tended to remove serious price distortions, but
gave inadequate attention to the provision of social services. As a
consequence, only a few countries managed to achieve sustainable higher
growth under these programmes."

Slippery, this line of analysis, and worth unpacking briefly, to conclude,
for one test of robust analysis is to pose the opposite premise, and to see
whether the subsequent hypotheses are worth exploring:

--What if structural adjustment represented not "a partial solution" but
instead, reflecting local and global power shifts, a profound defeat for
genuine African nationalists, workers, peasants, women, children,
manufacturing industry and the environment?

--What if "promoting reforms" really amounted to the IMF and World Bank
imposing their cookie-cutter neoliberal policies on desperately
disempowered African societies, without any reference to democratic
processes, resistance or diverse local conditions?

--What if the removal of "serious price distortions" really meant the
repeal of exchange controls (hence allowing massive capital flight),
subsidy cuts (hence pushing masses of people below the poverty line), and
lowered import tariffs (hence causing widespread deindustrialisation)?

--What if "inadequate attention to the provision of social services" in
reality meant the opposite: excessive attention to applying neoliberalism
not just to the macroeconomy, but also to health, education, water and
other crucial state services?

--And what if the form of IMF/Bank attention included insistence upon
greater cost recovery, higher user-fees, lower budgetary allocations,
privatisation, and even the disconnection of supplies to those too poor to
afford them, hence leading to the unnecessary deaths of millions of people?

If these hypotheses are reasonable, and if the logical implication is to
proceed no further with structural adjustment, then a central task of Nepad
must be to slip around such arguments without reference to their relevance.
By doing so, Nepad fits right into the globalisers' modified neoliberal
project, which now insists even more incongruously that economic
integration solves poverty.

Apparently, the notion that South Africa might "naai"--translated from
Afrikaans as "totally screw over"--the rest of Africa through Mbeki's New,
Almost-African Initiative led those gathered at Abuja to revise the name.
Still, cheeky commentators are already observing that if
prounced "kneepad," the document signifies its merits as the cushion
African leaders will need, as they stoop and grovel for more handouts.

But that would be unfair, for Nepad is worth reading even if merely as an
ambitious attempt to bring a spirit of "engagement" by at least three
African leaders to a world economy which is still totally screwing over
Africa. True, like all top-down policy formulations, Nepad reeks of
technicism--a scent which could dissipate partially if exposed to the fires
of popular debate, protest and participation. But that would risk the
transformation of Nepad into a partnership with Africans themselves. And
Mbeki's AIDS interventions provide enough evidence of his intentions to
keep millions of Africans alive, much less in partnership.

The alternative to Nepad begins with African activists building up networks
within and between diverse social movements, visionary trade unions,
Jubilee chapters, women's organisations, environmental groups and the
progressive intelligentsia. These are already taking seed across the
continent via anti-neoliberal protests and longer-term strategic work
(e.g., in this subregion, the Southern African Peoples Solidarity Network,
at http://aidc.org.za, and across the continent flowing from the Dakar 2000
process to promote an African People's Consensus instead of a
Map/Nai/Nepad).

A recent precedent for rejection and reformulation was the World Bank's
Global Development Gateway, which was repelled in March by creative
South/ern African civil society groups, and which instead initiated the
Africa Pulse information community. That kind of African partnership, based
on a human-rights culture, a decommodification strategy and durable cross-
border alliances, is far superior to Pretoria's new gambit.

Indeed, Nepad belongs with many of South Africa's other regional economic
strategies: deindustrialising neighbours because of relectance to give the
same duty-free preferences to SADC imports that even the apartheid regime
had offered; imposing EU and US free-trade regimes on unwilling neighbours;
demanding debt repayments from impoverished Mozambique for loans that
resettled dissident rightwing Afrikaner farmers and that rebuilt
electricity lines which were destroyed by apartheid destabilisation;
kicking out 15,000 Zimbabwean farmworkers with no compensation; or treating
informal economic migrants like meat for dogs (not merely in extremist SA
Police Service training exercises but on a day-to-day basis at the
Department of Home Affairs).

To expand this sort of subimperialist project via a warmed-over Washington
Consensus, Nepad, means that Mbeki is content merely polishing, not
abolishing, global apartheid.

Patrick Bond's new book is Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the
World Bank, IMF and International Finance (University of Cape Town Press).
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2.CONFLICT, EMERGENCIES, AND CRISES

BURUNDI: ARMY SILENT ON CASUALTIES IN PUSH AGAINST REBELS
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=16956
Although the army said it could not yet give an accurate casualty figure in
its drive to flush out rebels from a forest near the capital, Bujumbura,
news organisations have reported at least 100 rebels and 30 government
troops killed since the operation began nine days ago.

CAR: OPPOSITION REJECTS PEACEKEEPERS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1694000/1694166.stm
Opposition parties in the Central African Republic (CAR) have rejected a
plan to send a regional peacekeeping force to the country.

CAR: TALKS TO EASE CONFLICT
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2001nov/features/29nov-car.html
A summit aimed at resolving the crisis in the Central African Republic
(CAR) will be held this month in Khartoum, Sudan, according to the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

DJIBOUTI: GERMAN TROOPS TO SET UP CAMP
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=16960
A German military delegation arrived in Djibouti on Sunday for talks with
top Djibouti officials, a senior government official told IRIN on Tuesday.
He said the 17 member military delegation was in the country to "set up a
base camp for German naval forces participating in the fight against global
terrorism". The Germans are part of a group of nine nations patrolling the
Indian Ocean from Oman to Somalia, looking for suspected terrorists.

EAST AFRICA: SMALL ARMS EXACERBATING REGIONAL INSECURITY
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=16720
Rogue soldiers from the Ugandan army and the rebel Sudan People's
Liberation Army (SPLA) are behind the sale of much of the arms and
ammunition that contribute to the instability in Uganda, particularly in
the eastern subregion of Karamoja, according to a report from the
indigenous nongovernmental organisation Action for the Development of Local
Communities (ADOL).

GUINEA-BISSAU: CONCERN OVER REPORTED COUP ATTEMPT
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=17192
The United States and Cape Verde on Tuesday, expressed concern over the
announcement by Guinea-Bissau that it foiled an attempted coup on Sunday,
and arrested suspected plotters.

NAMIBIA: FOOD SHORTAGES ANTICIPATED
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2001dec/features/04dec-namibia.html
The World Food Programme has warned of possible breaks in the food pipeline
in Namibia in January if it does not secure donor funding soon.

RWANDA: NUMBER OF VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS DOWN ALMOST 50%
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=17126
The number of vulnerable Rwandans without proper shelter has dropped by
almost 50 percent since 1999, a survey by the Ministry of Human Settlement
has shown.

SOMALIA: DEEPENING POLITICAL IMPASSE IN PUNTLAND
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112050112.html
Traditional elders of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland,
northeastern Somalia, have so far been unable to resolve the political
impasse in Garowe, the regional capital, local sources told IRIN on
Wednesday.

SOMALIA: ON THE VERGE OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=16958
Somalia is on the verge of an economic collapse unparalleled in modern
history, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia said on
Monday.

SOMALIA: UNHCR OFFICIAL SAYS AGENCY IS PREPARED FOR REFUGEE EXODUS
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=17143
The Deputy High Commissioner of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR)
has said that in the event that the United States launches any attacks on
Somalia as part of its war on terrorism, the agency has developed
contingency plans for coping with any resultant refugee exodus.

ZIMBABWE: MBEKI IS URGED TO GET TOUGH
http://ens-news.com/ens/nov2001/2001L-11-29-03.html
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa sought to distance himself from the
worsening situation in Zimbabwe yesterday when his spokesmen suggested that
he had toughened his attitude towards President Robert Mugabe.

ZIMBABWE: SANCTIONS LOOM FOR MUGABE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1693000/1693150.stm
The United States House of Representatives has passed legislation which
urges President George W Bush to impose targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe's
leadership.

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3.RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY

EGYPT: ARBITRARY ARREST AND DETENTION OF FOUR ALLEGEDLY GAY MEN
The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by a reliable
source of the arbitrary arrest and detention of four men accused of being
homosexual in Egypt. The four men have been held in the Boulak Prison
Station in Giza, and are reportedly under investigation for "the habitual
practice of debauchery" - previously also translated as "obscene
behaviour" - under Article 9c of Law No. 10 of 1961 on the Combat of
Prostitution.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4575

JAPAN TO JOIN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT TREATY
The Japanese government plans to join a 1998 treaty that eyes establishment
of an International Criminal Court to try under international law
individuals who have committed war crimes and mass murder, government
sources have said.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4576

KENYA: THOUSANDS FLEE CLASHES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1693000/1693296.stm
An estimated 3,000 people have fled fighting in the Nairobi slum of Kibera
after two days of clashes over rent leave at least seven dead.

MALI-RWANDA: MALI POLICE ARREST GENOCIDE SUSPECT
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?
ReportID=17134&SelectRegion=Great_Lakes&SelectCountry=MALI-RWANDA
Malian police arrested genocide suspect Paul Bisengimana on Tuesday at the
request of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the
organisation's spokesman Kingsley Moghalu told Internews in Arusha,
Tanzania.

NAMIBIA: NUJOMA'S DEPARTURE A CHALLENGE FOR SWAPO
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=16685
Political analysts and commentators have hailed President Sam Nujoma's
decision not to stand for re-election in 2004 as positive for his ruling
party, SWAPO, for Namibia and for the southern African region.

NIGERIA: LIVING ON DEATH ROW
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1694000/1694027.stm
In the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto, a woman is awaiting the outcome
of an appeal against a conviction for adultery by an Islamic, or Sharia,
court. If the appeal fails, Safiyatu Huseini will be stoned to death.

SENEGAL: REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF ROME STATUTE
http://www.lchr.org/IJP/inl.htm
The Organisation Nationale des Droits de l’Homme (ONDH) organized a highly
successful conference on the implementation of the Rome Statute into
Senegalese law on October 23-26, 2001. This conference was organized in
collaboration with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR) and the
Fédération Internationale des Droits de l’Homme (FIDH) and took place with
the support of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Canada and the assistance of
the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Final Report is available for
download.

SOUTH AFRICA: 'UNDERHAND' MEANS USED IN EVICTIONS
Farmers have come under harsh criticism at the Land Tenure conference for
allegedly using guerrilla tactics to dodge new laws and for evicting
workers to sidestep legislation.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4551

SOUTH AFRICA: FORMER FIRST LADY MURDERED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1693000/1693367.stm
The ex-wife of former South African President FW de Klerk has been brutally
murdered in her luxury Cape Town flat.

SOUTH AFRICA: SENTENCING OF DOG UNIT MEMBERS
More Should Be Held Accountable
The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation welcomes the prison
sentences imposed on the four members of the North East Rand Dog Unit for
the brutal canine torture of 3 Mozambicans. But while the four policemen
have been sentenced to imprisonment what is very clear is that not all of
those who were complicit in this act of savagery have yet been held
accountable.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4570

SOUTHERN AFRICA: FLAWS IN DEMOCRACY
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2001dec/features/03dec-africa.html
Southern African states show a blatant lack of democratic awareness, says
Henning Melber in the Mail & Guardian.

TANZANIA: GROUPS RALLY AGAINST CRACKDOWN
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2001nov/features/29nov-tanzania.html
US-based groups have voiced concern over reports that Tanzanian police
searched offices and homes of lawyers pressing for an international probe
of alleged killings at a Canadian-invested gold mine in the East African
country.

TANZANIA: PROTEST GOVERNMENT ATTACK ON ACTIVISTS
The Tanzanian police have arrested two men and issued a warrant for the
arrest of the third who have been pressing for an international
investigation of allegations of forcible evictions and killings at
Bulyanhulu in Tanzania in August of 1996. This alert calls for protests to
the World Bank and the Tanzanian government.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4569

US: WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE ON NEW JUSTICE BILL
the White House has issued a press release on President Bush's signing of
the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary appropriations bill in which
the Craig Amendment was added: "Section 630 prohibits the use of
appropriated funds for cooperation with, or assistance or other support to,
the International Criminal Court (ICC) or its Preparatory Commission."
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4574

ZIMBABWE: COURT BACKS MUGABE LAND REFORMS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1691000/1691357.stm
Zimbabwe's Supreme Court has ruled that President Robert Mugabe's land
reform programme complies with the constitution.

ZIMBABWE: ELECTORAL AMENDMENTS
http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=3145
Amendments to the Electoral Act - intended to disenfranchise as many
potential opposition supporters as possible - will give a legal basis for
rigging of the ballot.

ZIMBABWE: NEW CHALLENGE TO MUGABE
http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=3141
Civil rights activists in Zimbabwe have threatened to launch a campaign of
civil disobedience in January unless the government implements political
reforms and ensures next year's presidential election is free and fair.

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4.CORRUPTION

BOTSWANA: SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY ACCUSES BDP OF NEPOTISM
http://www.transparency.org/cgi-bin/dcn-read.pl?citID=15236
Botswana Social Democratic Party (BSDP) has accused the Botswana Democratic
Party (BDP) of practising nepotism, corruption and favouritism. BSDP says
under the BDP government, jobs are offered on partisan lines with key
positions in the civil service going to BDP favourites.

KENYA: NEW BILL PLANNED TO TARGET CHEATING LAWYERS
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112030651.html
A Bill designed to deal with cheating lawyers is being drafted, the
Attorney-General has said.

SIERRE LEONE: 7-MAN COMMITTEE VISITS ANTI - CORRUPTION COMMISSION
http://allafrica.com/stories/200111280855.html
A 7-man Advisory Committee of the Anti Corruption Commission last Friday
paid an introductory visit to the Commission's headquarters 3 Gloucester
Street in Freetown.

SOUTH AFRICA: JUSTICE GROUP WANTS CORRUPTION BILL FAST
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112040149.html
Parliament's justice committee has become the first of the seven to wrap up
its work on the arms procurement programme, and has recommended introducing
the Prevention of Corruption Bill in Parliament urgently to close the
loopholes identified in the arms programme report.

SOUTH AFRICA: NEW SAFETY STRATEGY TO TACKLE PROBLEM OF CORRUPTION
http://www.transparency.org/cgi-bin/dcn-read.pl?citID=15233
Transport minister says that the problems of inefficiency, fraud and
corruption should be addressed immediately.

ZAMBIA: I'LL SPEAK OUT ON ELECTIONS, SAYS KAUNDA
http://allafrica.com/stories/200111280797.html
Commenting on accusations and counter-accusations of theft and corruption
between FDD and MMD leaders in recent weeks, Dr. Kaunda has said he will
speak out on all those that are vying for public offices during the
forthcoming presidential and general elections.

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5.HEALTH

AIDS: ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT
http://www.aidschannel.org/insights/guest_columnist/kaunda-december-
2001.shtml
Now the new Millennium is fully underway, we must face the full calamity
and repercussions of AIDS. The fight ahead is nothing short of a war, says
Dr. Kenneth Kaunda.

DIGGING DEEP
New Dimensions Of HIV Prevention In Southern Africa's Mines
http://www.id21.org/health/h5cc1g1.html
Labour migration plays an important role in HIV transmission, particularly
in the mining industry in eastern and southern Africa. HIV prevalence is
around 30 percent amongst South African gold miners. Improved strategies
for HIV prevention are obviously needed - is it time for a new approach?

ETHIOPIA: OPPOSITION CRITICISES GOVERNMENT AIDS PROGRAMME
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=17139
Opposition political parties have strongly criticised the government's
HIV/AIDS programme labelling it ineffective and calling on the government
to declare a state of emergency as the only way to combat the spread of the
disease.

HIV/AIDS FUND FLOPS
http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/news/media/pressrel/011130p.htm
In June the Global AIDS and Health Fund was launched with great fanfare.
The fund should have been up and running by now, but six months on, the
$10bn target proposed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stands at just
$1.5bn. Administrative structures are not in place and no money has been
disbursed. Since the fund was announced, it's estimated 1.5 million people -
 equivalent to almost the entire population of Northern Ireland - will have
died from AIDS. Among them will be over a quarter of a million children.

HIV/AIDS NETWORK LAUNCHES A SEARCH ENGINE
http://www2.womensnet.org.za/news/show.cfm?news_id=767
The HIV/AIDS Search Engine is a tool for searching the internet for news on
medications, treatments and vaccines. People can log in privately and chat
with a counselor or get answers to questions from an online forum. Users
can search through links using major search engines and news headlines
sites. This online service is particularly targeted at rural locations
where HIV/AIDS information and support is limited.

HIV/AIDS: WORLD BANK APPOINTS NEW GLOBAL ADVISER
The World Bank has announced the appointment of the bank's first global
HIV/AIDS adviser, charged with galvanizing bank efforts in the fight
against the spread of the disease, particularly in developing countries.
Medical scientist Debrework Zewdie of Ethiopia has been appointed as the
bank's HIV/AIDS adviser "to make a difference in developing countries which
are struggling with the social and economic ravages of HIV/AIDS, and to
raise global awareness and resources to combat and prevent the disease,"
said bank Vice President for Human Development Jozef Ritzen.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4560

HIV/AIDS: WORLD BANK TO CONSIDER GRANTING NO-INTEREST LOANS
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_hiv_recent_rep.cfm?
dr_cat=1&show=yes&dr_DateTime=28-Nov-01#8229
The World Bank announced yesterday that it will consider granting $500
million in no-interest loans to help developing countries in Africa fight
HIV/AIDS. The possible new funding was announced as the World Bank
appointed Debrework Zewdie as its first global HIV/AIDS adviser.

MATERNAL MORTALITY INDICATORS IN ETHIOPIA
Do They Measure Up?
http://www.id21.org/health/h8pb1g3.html
Maternal mortality is a major challenge to global public health. But it is
difficult to measure true maternal death rates at the community level,
particularly in societies where most deliveries occur at home. What is the
most accurate way to estimate maternal mortality in countries with limited
resources and infrastructure?

NIGERIA HAS AT LEAST ONE MILLION AIDS ORPHANS
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112050208.html
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says there were at least 2.6
million Nigerians living with HIV-AIDS and about one million children
without parents as a result of the HIV scourge by the end of last year.

SOUTH AFRICA: 'FATALISM,' POVERTY CREATE 'CYNICISM' ABOUT CONDOMS AMONG MEN
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_hiv_recent_rep.cfm?
dr_cat=1&show=yes&dr_DateTime=29-Nov-01#8260
The New York Times, in a recent installment of its "Death and Denial"
series about AIDS in Hlabisa, South Africa, reports that "everyone in
Hlabisa has been advised to use condoms, but few do." Poverty,
ignorance, "fatalism," myths and "cynicism" all play a role in residents'
decisions not to use condoms. Although some men interviewed in local bars
said that they may use condoms "20% to 50% of the time," they added
that "[b]ecause we are Zulus, we don't believe AIDS can affect us. We see
our sisters dying, but we don't believe it's AIDS. We think it's TB or
pneumonia."

SOUTH AFRICA: TAC SLATES TREVOR MANUEL
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/news.html#tac
The Treatment Action Campaign has reacted angrily to Finance Minister
Trevor Manuel's claim that the debate on anti-retroviral Aids drugs is
misplaced.

UN AIDS EPIDEMIC UPDATE
December 2001
http://www.unaids.org/epidemic_update/report_dec01/index.html#full
At the end of 2001, an estimated 40 million people globally were living
with HIV. In many parts of the developing world, the majority of new
infections occur in young adults, with young women especially vulnerable.
About one-third of those currently living with HIV/AIDS are aged 15–24.
Most of them do not know they carry the virus. Many millions more know
nothing or too little about HIV to protect themselves against it.

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6.EDUCATION AND SOCIAL WELFARE

ANGOLA: THOUSANDS EXPECTED TO SURF MINEFIELD WEBSITE
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/oneworld/20011203/wl/thousands_expected_to_surf
_angolan_minefield_website_1.html
A British landmine-clearing group launched a multimedia project Monday to
throw a global spotlight on how a community in Angola copes with daily life
around fields littered with unexploded weapons.

BRITAIN URGED TO ACT AGAINST SEX-SLAVERY
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/oneworld/20011204/wl/britain_urged_to_act_again
st_sex-slavery_1.html
Legislation is urgently needed to help fight the growth in the sexual
trafficking of women and children into Europe, the British government was
told Monday.

KENYA: SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN SCHOOLS
A Panos Report
http://www.oneworld.org/panos/wm_healt/Kenya_txt.htm
At Maseno University in Vihiga district, about 400 km from Nairobi in the
south-west of Kenya, a third-year male student boasts about his exploits in
humiliating female students. He specialises in embracing and groping women
with or without their consent. Disregarding the opinion of a female student
interviewed with him, who has been trying to make the point that someone
touching your body without your consent amounts to harassment, he
says, "Ah, Mimi ninaleseni ya kudara wanawake na kila dame anajua" ("I am
licensed to embrace women and every lady knows that").

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
AIDS Education For Ugandan Schoolchildren
http://www.id21.org/health/h5jw3g3.html
Comprehensive AIDS education can make pupils aware of the need to protect
themselves against infection. It can also bring about gradual changes in
the wider social environment, making safer sex more acceptable. But what is
the best way to introduce AIDS education to schools with scarce resources
and a packed curriculum?

RWANDA: UNICEF LAYS OUT HUMANITARIAN ACTION PLAN FOR 2002
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)and its partners plan to spend
some US $10.9 million for humanitarian action in Rwanda during 2002,
according to a UN Children's Fund report made available to IRIN on
Thursday. This effort is part of a broader UNICEF goal to ensure that the
rights of all children are realised, and in this way "support Rwanda's
transition from emergency to long-term human development".
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4571

SOUTH AFRICA: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF HIV/AIDS
http://www.teacher.co.za/200112/aids1.html
Schools are teaching pupils about sex and sexual diseases in an attempt to
curb the spread of HIV/Aids.

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7.WOMEN AND GENDER

AIDS AND MEN IN AFRICA
http://www.oneworld.org/panos/aids/aidsprog.htm#World%20Aids%20Campaign
The Panos AIDS Programme is working in collaboration with the Society for
Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) in three countries, Kenya, Mozambique and
Cameroon, on issues around men and HIV and impact on women. The project
targets local organisations, policymakers and the media --by disseminating
information on the issues and existing projects working with men, and
catalysing the development of new projects. The reports Men and HIV in
Mozambique ( in Portuguese) and Men and HIV in Kenya have been produced in
collaboration with SWAA as part of this project.

FACT SHEET: WOMEN AND ARMED CONFLICT
http://www2.womensnet.org.za/news/show.cfm?news_id=770
Throughout history, women and girls have been routinely assaulted and raped
as a weapon of war. Recently, "ethnic cleansing" and changing patterns of
conflict that target civilians have made women and children even more
vulnerable.

KENYA: MP CONDONES FGM
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112030687.html
Kenyan MP Jimmy Angwenyi is reported as saying that FGM rites are important
to the community as they mark a "new" stage in life.

NIGERIA: CHRISTIAN WOMEN DEMONSTRATE OVER SAFIYA
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112050210.html
The women's wing of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) under the
aegis of Social Securities Outreach (SSO) on Monday staged a peaceful
demonstration to the Lagos State Governor's office protesting the death
sentence passed on Safiya Hussain by a Sokoto State Sharia Court.

POVERTY-BUSTING NEEDS GENDER ANGLE, SAY EXPERTS
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/oneworld/20011130/wl/poverty-
busting_needs_gender_angle_say_experts_1.html
Tackling the roots of poverty will remain a pipe-dream unless women are
involved in national planning strategies, said experts Thursday at a United
Nations (news - web sites) meeting in New Delhi, India.

RWANDA: A PEARL IN THE HORROR OF GENOCIDE
http://society.guardian.co.uk/christmasappeal/story/0,11321,612365,00.html
Olive Uwera did not survive Rwanda's 1994 genocide. The young Tutsi woman
is still alive, almost eight years on, but her daughter is a constant
reminder of the interahamwe Hutu militiamen who gang-raped her, butchered
her father and destroyed her mother's mind. One of the rapists fathered the
child; another condemned Olive to a lingering death from Aids.

TANZANIA: AMNESTY SUPPORTS ANTI-FGM CAMPAIGNS
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112050266.html
The Amnesty International, Dodoma Chapter in central Tanzania has launched
awareness campaigns aimed at fighting against Female Genital Mutilation
(FGM) in the country.

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8.REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION

2002 UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
The fifty-eighth session of the UN Commission on Human Rights will be be
held from 18 March to 26 April 2002 in Geneva. The International Catholic
Commission on Migration and December 18 encourage all ECOSOC accredited
NGOs to prepare a written statement on the human rights of migrants from
their own perspective. Written statements submitted by NGOs and government
delegations are issued as UN documents and made available as such to member
and observer governments and NGO participants.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4590
Contact: [log in to unmask]

CENTRAL & EASTERN AFRICA: US AID BODY APPEALS FOR MORE HELP FOR REFUGEES
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=16997
The US Committee for Refugees has recommended measures designed to boost
aid for refugees worldwide, especially in Africa.

INTERNATIONAL MIGRANT'S DAY
18 December
http://www.december18.net/IMD.htm
International Migrant's Day was finally proclaimed on December 4th, 2000.
first of all an opportunity to recognize the contributions made by millions
of migrants to the economies and well being of their host and home
countries, and to promote respect for their basic human rights. Dignity and
respect is the motto of this year's celebrations. We encourage non-
governmental organisations - including yours - to join the global
solidarity movement for the promotion and protection of the rights of
migrants and to use of the International Migrant's Day to highlight
publicly the contributions made by migrants.

KENYA-SUDAN: UN OFFICIAL CALLS FOR REFUGEE LAW
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=17150
UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Mary Ann Wyrsch on Tuesday
stressed the need for the Kenyan government to enact national refugee
legislation to ensure the rights of some 218,00 refugees being housed by
the east African country are upheld.

SUDAN: INTERVIEW WITH FRANCIS DENG
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=17196
Francis Deng is the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Displaced
Persons. In an interview with IRIN after a recent visit to Sudan, Deng said
that the government had agreed to hold a workshop which he hoped would
result in a clear strategy on internal displacement.

THE RETURN OF 'FORTRESS EUROPE'?
http://www.stratfor.com/home/0110312230.htm
Evidence of terror cells active throughout Europe is strengthening the
position of anti-immigration advocates throughout the Continent. This will
lead to greater calls to tighten immigration policies and restrict the free
movement of labor. But such policies would have negative implications for
long-term European growth and integration.

TRAFFICKING OF HUMANS
December 18 Web Site Update
http://www.december18.net/traffickingconventions.htm
A special page on trafficking of humans has been added to the December 18
website. It provides you with links to international and regional
instruments and to various documents from governmental, multilateral and
non governmental sources.
Contact: [log in to unmask]

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9.RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA

SOUTH AFRICA GETS LEFT WITH THE BILL FOR WCAR
http://www.icare.to/news.html#SOUTH%20AFRICA%20GETS%20LEFT%20WITH%20THE%
20BILL%20FOR%20WCAR
The anti-racism conference has cost South Afrika about 90 million rand. The
International community has paid only 11,4 million rand, according to the
South African newspaper The Citizen. Only Australia, New Zealand and
European countries have contributed. Up till now not a single Arab or
African government has shared in the costs of the UN-racismconference, held
in Durban in September.

SOUTH AFRICA: APARTHEID MUSEUM OPENS
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/news.html#apart
The new apartheid museam next to Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, is both
shocking and brilliant says AFP's Jan Hennop.

WCAR: DURBAN OUTCOME REMAINS A MYSTERY
http://www.icare.to/news.html#DURBAN%20OUTCOME%20REMAINS%20A%20MYSTERY
The outcome of the bitter U.N. racism conference in South Africa remains a
virtual secret two months after the conclusion of the meeting. The reason:
Some African governments still are trying to link development assistance to
slavery.

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10.ENVIRONMENT

KENYA SEEKS ENERGY SOURCES AS POWER FIRM POSTS RECORD LOSS
http://ens-news.com/ens/nov2001/2001L-11-29-03.html
The government of Kenya has signed an exploration treaty with a British
firm in a move that will see the world's deepest oil wells drilled off the
East African coast. The deal is an attempt to expand the country's fuel
supply as Kenya's public power firm announced the biggest loss in its
history.

KENYA: POLICE BREAK-UP OGONI PROTEST
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112050480.html
Police in Nigeria's southern Rivers State on Tuesday broke up a rally of
the National Youth Council of Ogoni People (NYCOP) on grounds that they had
not sought authorisation to hold the demonstration.

KENYA: ROW ON FORESTS RAGES
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112050111.html
The intended de-gazettement of 170,000 acres of forest cover will be of an
unprecedented magnitude since independence, a forest organisation has said.

TANZANIAN POLICE RAID LAWYERS' ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/nov2001/2001L-11-30-04.html
Tanzanian police have raided the offices of the Lawyers' Environmental
Action Team (LEAT) in Dar es Salaam and searched the homes of two LEAT
attorneys, according to an international association of public interest
attorneys based in Eugene.

UGANDA: BUTAMIRA: AN ACTIVIST'S PLEA
http://allafrica.com/stories/200112050273.html
The poor people of Butamira had for a moment thought that they could secure
their future through exploiting the forest reserve but are now losing all
hope. Government is determined to move them so Kakira Sugar Works could use
the reserve to cultivate more sugarcane.

WATER TALKS MUST TACKLE THORNY ISSUES, SAY CAMPAIGNERS
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/oneworld/20011203/wl/water_talks_must_tackle_th
orny_issues_say_campaigners_1.html
As governments meet in Bonn, Germany, this week to discuss means for
conserving and managing the world's freshwater resources, nonprofit groups
are warning that failure to come up with detailed plans for action will
lead to "a global freshwater catastrophe."

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11.MEDIA

KENYA MEDIA FEARS BANKRUPTCY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/africa/newsid_1683000/1683283.stm
Large libel damages being made against Kenya newspapers could prevent the
media from working effectively, say owners and journalists.

NIGERIA: RAPID RESPONSE SQUAD STORM COURT
http://www.mediachannel.org/news/today/
Members of the Lagos state security outfit- Rapid Response Squad (RRS)
numbering about 50 yesterday stormed the premises of the Ikeja High Court,
beat mercilessly three lawyers and assaulted 13 students of the Lagos State
University for selling or buying a legal-biased, magazine - squib.

SUDAN: GOVERNMENT LIFTS CENSORSHIP
On 28 November 2001, the government of Sudan lifted the previously enforced
censorship from 12 of the country’s daily newspapers. Four newspapers;
Alwan, AlRai Al Akher, Al-Watan and the Khartoum Monitor continue to be
under heavy censorship.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4578
Contact: [log in to unmask]

THE BOMBING OF AL-JAZEERA
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=12332
Bombing radio and TV stations is a war crime. But the United States seems
to keep doing it, reports Laura Flanders.

ZIMBABWE RISKS CIVIL CONFLICT WITHOUT FREE PRESS SAYS MBEKI
http://www.mediachannel.org/news/today/
The President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, warned today that civil
conflict could explode in Zimbabwe if full press freedom is not ensured in
the run-up to presidential elections next March.

ZIMBABWE: DRACONIAN MEDIA BILL PASSED
http://www.misanet.org/alerts/20011203.zimbabwe.1.html
The government of Zimbabwe has approved the Access to Information and
Protection of Privacy Bill, which seeks to regulate the operations of the
media in Zimbabwe and purportedly give access to information held by public
bodies.

ZIMBABWE: JOURNALISTS TO FIGHT CONTROLS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1684000/1684763.stm
Independent journalists in Zimbabwe have vowed to fight the government's
plans to control the media. Under proposed legislation, a new regime of
licensing journalists would disqualify foreign reporters from working in
the country.

ZIMBABWE: THE COURAGE TO SPEAK IN A SILENCED LAND
http://www.cpj.org/awards01/nyarota.html
Geoff Nyarota is the editor of The Daily News, Zimbabwe's only independent
daily newspaper. Launched less than two years ago, the Harare-based paper
has managed to become Zimbabwe's most influential voice despite repeated
attempts by President Robert Mugabe's government to silence it, and
Nyarota, has been awarded the 2002 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press
freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers.

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12.DEVELOPMENT

4-YEAR GLOBAL REVIEW OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT
http://www.saprin.org/news_updates.htm
Thousands of civil-society organizations have completed a major multi-
country assessment with the World Bank of the impact of the economic
adjustment policies of the Bank and the International Monetary Fund on
local populations in the developing world. The results, summarized in a 25-
page report, The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis and Poverty, show a
systematic weakening of the productive capacity of the countries
implementing Bank policies and the inability of these countries to generate
productive employment at a living wage. Poverty has been further deepened
by the inability of the poor to access essential services at affordable
rates.

MALAWI: IRIN FOCUS ON LAND REFORM PROPOSALS
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=17174
Recently released government land reform proposals, which prohibit the
foreign ownership of land, have received a cautious welcome in Malawi.

MARKET CURE PROPOSED FOR THIRD WORLD'S BATTERED FARMERS
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/oneworld/20011204/wl/market_cure_proposed_for_t
hird_world_s_battered_farmers_1.html
Third World farmers suffering from falling commodity prices are set to be
offered a new international scheme to shield them from financial collapse.

SOUTH AFRICA: COMMERCIALISING SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~mspadmin/
The collection of household refuse - or the lack thereof - is one of the
most powerful visual benchmarks of inequality in South Africa. Municipal
governments in South Africa have been turning increasingly to
commercialisation (i.e., privatisation, outsourcing, corporatisation) as a
way of addressing this refuse collection backlog. Why this has happened,
and how successful it has been at addressing the problem, are the subjects
of the two papers in this collection.

SOUTH AFRICA: THE ELECTRICITY CRISIS IN SOWETO
http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~mspadmin/
The efforts to expand access to electricity by the ANC has been undermined
by its lack of affordability. Self-imposed reductions of electricity usage,
combined with aggressive cut-offs by Eskom for nonpayment of bills, has
meant that tens of thousands of low-income households are without the
electricity they need, with dire consequences for public health and safety
and poverty alleviation. This report provides the first detailed case study
of access and affordability to electricity in the township of Soweto, in
Johannesburg.

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13.INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY

ALTERNATIVES TO MICROSOFT - DISCUSSION ON TECHSOUP
Ask your questions here this week! The hosts of this event, Greg Beuthin
(CompuMentor's Technology Consultant and TechSoup's Hardware guide), Joe
Cancilla (TechSoup's Content Developer and Open Source guide), and Michael
Schrecker (CompuMentor's Technology Consultant and Systems Administrator)
will discuss the alternatives to the Windows operating system.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4600

BLOGGING ICANN
http://www.lextext.com/icann/
This web site is a blog (weblog) - one person's take on the proceedings of
the Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It features
downloadable .mp3 files of meetings, etc. Visitors to the site may submit
items, read commentary, link to other ICANN web sites and take part in
online discussion.
Contact: [log in to unmask]

EFFECTIVE HIV/AIDS COMMUNICATION?
http://www.comminit.com/roundtable2/
There is considerable debate and enquiry concerning the most effective
communication strategies for addressing HIV/AIDS issues. James Deane,
Executive Director of The Panos Institute, prepared a background paper on
this theme for the recent Communication for Development Roundtable held in
Managua, Nicaragua, Nov 26 - 28 2001, and hosted by UNFPA. Go to the web
site to participate and contribute.
Contact: [log in to unmask]

GOLDSTUCK SURVEY IDENTIFIES INTERNET NOMADS AS FREE MAIL USERS
http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/current1.html#news roundup
The nomadic nature of many South African Internet users has sparked a boom
in the use of free web-based e-mail services, a new research study reveals.
According to "The Goldstuck Report: Web Free-Mail in South Africa", more
than half a million free web-based e-mail accounts are in active use in
this country.
Contact: [log in to unmask]

ITRAINONLINE LAUNCHES: RESOURCES FOR LEARNING AND TRAINING
Six international organisations have joined forces to create ItrainOnline,
a technology resource centre for people who want to learn how to use the
Internet effectively for social justice and sustainable development.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4602

KENYA: PRIVATISATION, TELKOM AND ICT POLICY
http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/current1.html#headline
Kenya’s government has halted the privatisation process of Telkom, its key
asset. Despite widespread government corruption, a severe economic
downturn, high crime and the lack of a clearly articulated ICT policy,
Kenya has already become one of Africa’s larger middle league players in
connectivity terms. But will things change and let real growth occur?, asks
Russell Southwood after a recent visit.
Contact: [log in to unmask]

SCIDEV.NET LAUNCHED
The first global website dedicated to both reporting on and discussing the
role of science and technology in meeting the needs of developing countries
will be launched in London on Monday, 3 December.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4550

THE ELECTRONIC SMALL WORLD PROJECT
http://smallworld.sociology.ohio-state.edu/html/homepage.html
The Electronic Small World Project seeks to map the social connections
among people using email. Using the tools of social network analysis, we
hope to construct the first images of the social topography (as opposed to
the technical or physical topography) of the Internet. This social map will
help us understand how information moves through society, how different
types of people are connected, and how small the social world in which we
live really is.
Contact: [log in to unmask]

WIRELESS ACCESS
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5640&mode=&order=0
This article in Linux Journal has some exciting new ideas for those
interested in cheap, high-bandwidth internet connectivity: 'Here's a
challenge for the practical hackers and entrepreneurs of the world: how do
we make public wireless access ubiquitous, easy, and as free as speech,
beer or both. Kevin Werbach has some ideas.'
Contact: [log in to unmask]

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14.eNEWSLETTERS AND MAILING LISTS

AFRICULTURES LETTRE D'INFORMATION 47/2001
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4668

GREETINGS FROM AFRICANCRAFT.COM!
A web site dedicated to bringing the arts and the artisans of Africa
online.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4666

ONEWORLD DEBTCHANNEL.ORG DIGEST
A weekly e-mail digest of the latest top stories from the global portal on
international debt from the OneWorld network.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4667

TANZANIA ONLINE GATEWAY NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2001
Our latest additions to Tanzania Online, the gateway to information on
development issues in Tanzania. All documents are available free on
tzonline.org. You can also receive these documents by email.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4669
Contact: [log in to unmask]

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15.FUNDRAISING

AFRICA GRANTMAKERS
http://www.africagrantmakers.org/
The Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (AGAG) is a network of grantmakers
working in, or interested in working in Africa. The group has its roots in
the Southern Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (SAGAG), which was designed
to encourage greater foundation interest in South Africa, promote better
grantmaking in the country, and assist nonprofit organizations fighting
apartheid.

ASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS
http://www.smallfoundations.org/
With a membership of some 1,900 foundations, ASF works to provide
information and assistance related to quality philanthropy to foundations
having five or fewer persons and a portfolio that includes all aspects of
foundation work, including public relations, writing letters, cutting
checks, mailing and processing grant applications, working with trustees
and grantees, doing site visits and evaluations, and managing assets.

PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
November 30, 2001
November is Celebrating Philanthropy month at the Foundation Center, and in
honor of the occasion we've put together a collection of annotated links to
some of the best general philanthropy resources on the Web.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4686
Contact: [log in to unmask]

US: NATIONAL NETWORK OF GRANTMAKERS
http://www.nng.org/
The National Network of Grantmakers is an organization of 400 individual
donors, foundation staff and board members, and grantmaking committee
members involved in funding social and economic justice by supporting
organizations working for change.

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16.COURSES, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS

BURKINA FASO: ICASA WORKSHOP FOR RADIO JOURNALISTS
Tagged "Local Voices: Covering the ICASA for your listener", the pre-ICASA
journalism workshop aims to increase the quantity and quality of broadcast
coverage in Africa of the ICASA and to leverage greater HIV/AIDS awareness
and activism by participating journalists and media managers. About a dozen
African radio journalists will attend the workshop which holds on 7-8
December 2001. Thereafter, participants will also be able to participate in
the ICASA, also holding in Ouagadougou 9-13 December.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4682
Contact: [log in to unmask]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: KNOW HOW CONFERENCE ON THE WORLD OF WOMEN'S INFORMATION
We call on women's media, Internet managers, information and advocacy
organizations -as well as researchers- to submit proposals for the second
Know How Conference, to be held at the Makerere university campus, Kampala,
Uganda, 21-26 July 2002.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4680
Contact: [log in to unmask]

LET AFRICA LIVE!
December 10 To 15, 2001, Kenya, Mombasa
http://www2.womensnet.org.za/events/show.cfm?id=219
The conference will specifically bring together
young,researchers,educators, advocates, counsellors and policy makers. It
will provide a strong platform in shaping the future role of young people
in HIV/Aids prevention and care within the continent.

SOUTH AFRICA: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ACADEMY
The International Human Rights Academy (IHRA) is to be held from 3 April to
20 April 2002 on Robben Island, Cape Town under the auspices of the Law
Faculty of the University of Western Cape (UWC), the Faculty of Law of the
University of Ghent (RUG), and the Law Faculty of Utrecht University.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4681
Contact: [log in to unmask]

SOUTH AFRICA: SOCIOLOGY DEGREE
PART-TIME/FULL-TIME
Wits University Sociology Department invites applications for its Honours
degree courses in General Sociology, Industrial Sociology and Development
Sociology.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4607

SOUTHERN AFRICA: DEVELOPMENT AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Sedibeng Centre wishes to invite civil society leaders in South Africa,
Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Zimbabwe to express their interest in
attending this programme.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4608
Contact: [log in to unmask]

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17.ADVOCACY RESOURCES

SOUTH AFRICA: FINANCIAL SERVICES
Umhlaba Development Services is a private company that services the NGO
sector in effecting delivery of development programmes and policy. Umhlaba
offers a comprehensive Financial Management Service to address all aspects
of financial management of an NGO.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4604
Contact: [log in to unmask]

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18.JOBS

AFRICA/UK: CAFOD SEEKS YOUTH PROGRAMME ACCOMPANIER
http://jobs.oneworld.net/ads/index.cfm?job_id=773

ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN DEVELOPMENT RESOURCE NET JOBS
Issue 90 - Monday, December 3, 2001
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4687
Contact: [log in to unmask]

CARE USA SEEKS EDUCATION PROJECT MANAGER
http://jobs.oneworld.net/ads/index.cfm?job_id=786

GAMBIA: LEGAL OFFICERS SOUGHT
The Institute for Human Rights & Development in Africa is a pan-African
human rights organisation with its headquarters in Banjul, the Gambia. The
Institute specialises in the African regional human rights system,
including impact litigation in national and international fora based on
African human rights treaties, and training in the procedures of African
treaty mechanisms.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4689
Contact: [log in to unmask]

LONDON: INTERNATIONAL ALERT SEEKS GREAT LAKES PROGRAMME ADMINISTRATOR
Six Month Position
http://jobs.oneworld.net/ads/index.cfm?job_id=776

ONEWORLD WEEKLY JOBS LIST
The latest jobs from OneWorld Jobs - the place on the internet for jobs in
sustainable development, environment and human rights.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4671
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ONLINE COMMUNITY REPORT JOBS LISTINGS
http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/bytopic.f1ml?cat=jobs

RWANDA: CARE USA SEEKS CIVIL SOCIETY TECHNICAL ADVISOR
http://jobs.oneworld.net/ads/index.cfm?job_id=785

SOUTH AFRICA: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
Triangle Project, a progressive NGO based in Cape Town servicing the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) community, is looking for a
Community Development Officer.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4610
Contact: [log in to unmask]

SOUTH AFRICA: FUNDRAISER
Closing Date: 12 Dec 2001
http://www2.womensnet.org.za/jobs/show.cfm?id=640
The Valley Trust, a non-profit organisation situated in Bothas Hill,
KwaZulu-Natal is looking to employ a Fundraiser.

SOUTH AFRICA: TRIANGLE PROJECT SEEKS DIRECTOR AND COMMUNITY DEV OFFICER
The Triangle Project is a progressive NGO based in Cape Town that services
the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgendered (LGBT) community.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4679
Contact: [log in to unmask]

TANZANIA: FUNDRAISER SOUGHT FOR ZIFF FESTIVAL OF THE DHOW COUNTRIES
http://jobs.oneworld.net/ads/index.cfm?job_id=781

UK: RESEARCH DIRECTOR SOUGHT FOR INTERNATIONAL NGO TRAINING AND RESEARCH
CENTRE
http://jobs.oneworld.net/ads/index.cfm?job_id=775

US: BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY RECRUITING VISITING PROFESSORS
We are recruiting for a Visiting Professor for our spring semester
beginning January 2002, as well as two Engaged Scholars for residencies of
6-weeks each between January and May 2002.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4688
Contact: [log in to unmask]

US: SAVE THE CHILDREN SEEKS SR RESEARCH SPECIALIST
http://jobs.oneworld.net/ads/index.cfm?job_id=686

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19.BOOKS AND ARTS

SIGNPOSTS ON THE SUPERHIGHWAY - AFRICAN GENDER
http://www.oneworld.org/panos/books/books.htm#head3
Panos Southern Africa commissioned women’s organisations largely from
Southern Africa to engage in a gender analysis of the internet and identify
relevant, easy-to-use internet information resources on gender and
development. This publication is a result of that collaborative effort.
While prepared mostly with women’s strategic needs in mind, this book
should be useful to everyone who is interested in gender and development.

SOUTH AFRICA, APARTHEID & TRUTH
The book is written by Cape Town-based journalist, editor and labour
columnist Terry Bell in collaboration with Dumisa Ntsebeze the human rights
lawyer and former head of the investigations unit of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission.
Further details: http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php?id=4601

SOUTH AFRICA: THE CASE OF THE 'PEOPLE'S POET'
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2001dec/features/05dec-poet.html
Mzwakhe Mbuli has one last chance to appeal against his 13-year prison
sentence. The Mail & Guardian re-examines the evidence and suggests that
there has been a miscarriage of justice.

THE FUTURE OF FOOD
Biotechnology Markets And Policies In An International Setting
http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/jhu/futurefood.htm
What is the future of food? Everyone agrees that feeding the world in the
decades ahead will require substantial increases in crop yields. But how we
get there has become a remarkably contentious question because of
biotechnology. What should be biotechnology’s role in assuring affordable
and sustainably grown food for all? How we answer this question now will
have profound ramifications for decades to come. Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2001.

THE POLITICS OF PRECAUTION
Genetically Modified Crops In Developing Countries
http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/fps/fps35.htm
Robert L. Paarlberg
Why haven't more developing countries begun planting GM crops? In poor
countries many farmers are far from being fully productive and many
citizens must worry more about food availability or food cost than about
unconfirmed food safety dangers. In poor countries the development
imperative ordinarily trumps issues of environmental precaution. So why has
a pattern of policy resistance to GM crops emerged instead? In this
original study Robert Paarlberg examines local policy responses to GM crop
technologies in four important developing countries: Brazil, India, Kenya,
and China. He shows that in the first three of these countries regulatory
authorities have not yet given farmers official permission to plant any GM
crops. And in China, where farmers have been permitted to plant GM cotton,
regulators are still holding back on the release of most GM food and feed
crops, even though China's own national agricultural research system has
invested a considerable effort in developing such crops. 2001, ISBN 0-8018-
6823-8.

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