The American Conference on diversity mission is to work with leaders to create and enhance a society that embraces social justice for us all. The Program Manager is responsible for the development, implementation, and coordination of the American Conference on Diversity educational training programs and events through the organization's Youth Leadership Institute, ShopRite Center for Workplace Diversity and Community and Government Initiatives. This is a professional position requiring multiple skill sets including presentation skills, program development, marketing, events planning, and organization. Last day to apply: August 1, 2007.

The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR) at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University invites applications for a two-year appointment of a Postdoctoral Scholar to participate in the research and activities of the Center.

Nomadic rebels who launched a string of attacks in northern Niger's Sahara desert have said they wanted greater control over uranium and oil reserves being sold off to Chinese and other foreign firms.

You will be required to conduct and co-ordinate research activities, take a lead in developing, implementing and communicating a research programme of human rights work including thematic areas. You will have proven research skills and knowledge of Central Africa, and in particular the Democratic Republic of Congo. You will be a dynamic and team oriented person with first hand experience of the region with awareness and understanding of its cultures.

China has become a major source of foreign aid in Asia, Latin America and especially in Africa. CGD's Carol Lancaster explores whether Chinese aid will discourage needed economic and political reforms in African countries.

In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. According to UNFPA’s State of World Population 2007 report, by 2030, this number is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. Many of the new urbanites will be poor. Their future, the future of cities in developing countries, the future of humanity itself, all depend very much on decisions made now in preparation for this growth.

They range from surgeons and scholars to illiterate refugees from some of the world's worst hellholes -- a dizzyingly varied stream of African immigrants to the United States. More than one million strong and growing, they are enlivening American cities and altering how the nation confronts its racial identity.

Attacks on civilians and clashes between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwandan rebels have hindered efforts to reach affected populations in the east, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. The attacks were mainly perpetrated by the Forces démocratiques pour la libération du Rwanda (FDLR) rebels, who fled their country after the 1994 genocide and have continued to resist the Forces armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC).

Africa is vulnerable to numerous risks and shocks, including drought, natural disasters, conflict and political instability, and high levels of child and adult mortality and morbidity. This paper by ESRC Global Poverty Research Group reviews micro-level evidence on risk and its implications for growth and poverty in Africa.

Productivity among workers in the private sector who receive antiretroviral therapy through employee health schemes may not always return to pre-illness levels, according to findings from Kenya. Jonathan Simon of Boston University told the HIV Implementers’ Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, that companies may have to look at earlier initiation of treatment if they want to see workers return to full productivity.

China has granted Guinea Bissau a donation of US$4 million, as part of a protocol for financial support signed Thursday in Bissau between the two countries. The funding is to help the Guinean government to overcome its budgetary difficulties, which have made it impossible to pay the salaries of public workers, with the protocol having been by the Guinean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maria da Conceição Nobre Cabral, and by China’s ambassador in Bissau, Yan Ban Ghua.

Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan and his Zambian counterpart George Mpombo agreed Wednesday to further expand cooperation between the two countries' armed forces. In his talks with Mpombo, Cao said the people of China and Zambia enjoy a traditional friendship and support each other. Since the establishment of diplomatic ties, the two countries have conducted fruitful cooperation in the political, economic, cultural and other fields.

As part of its Knowledge Building and Mentoring Programme, the Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG) at King’s College London in collaboration with the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), is pleased to announce a call for applications for the MA Studentships and Mentoring Programme 2007-8.

The Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD) is seeking an administration volunteer/intern to work in the organisation’s International Office in London to cover expanding demands on current staff. There is a possibility for future part-time paid employment as administrator. Deadline for applictions is 20 July 2007.

Acknowledged as an excellent way of “getting information across” and supporting those who need to “learn as they do’”, the All In Diary is an innovative and practical tool developed to support humanitarian workers. Within a personal organizer, it incorporates customized diary pages to plan and record activities, and log notes and information for on-going evaluation, organizational learning and effective staff handover. It also provides essential pointers on 50 topics related to good humanitarian practice, plus additional CD and web-based tools and resources in relation to each topic.

The world is facing urgent and complex problems which are global in their nature and thus beyond the capability of national governments to solve alone. How can foundations contribute to solving these problems? This article by Peter Laugharn, appearing in the June issue of Alliance magazine looks at the current state of international funding and makes a number of proposals aimed at helping foundations make a more significant contribution.

The Africa-America Institute, a New York City nonprofit organization with African tertiary education and professional training mission seeks a Program Assistant, African Higher Education and Training (AHET). The Program Assistant (AHET) is involved in a wide range of activities that support the placement and monitoring of individual and group participant training and scholarship programs administered by AAI. The Program Assistant supports the Program Officer with administrative and clerical duties.

Interview of Dr. Martyn Davies, director of the Centre for Chinese Studies, at the World Mining Investment Congress on the subject of China's increasing attempts to cut out the middleman and source metals directly from Africa.

Become an essential part of a growing, dynamic organization. ACTION for Conflict Transformation (ACTION) is a global network of grassroots peace builders with a Support Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Closing date for applications: 26th of June 2007. Interview will be held on the 1st week of July.

World Bank presidential nominee Robert Zoellick would try to get China to listen to western concerns that it was exploiting investment opportunities in Africa while ignoring corruption in the region, he said yesterday. China has used its economic weight to invest in Africa, but has drawn criticism from western aid groups that it fosters misrule by failing to demand accountability.