HUMANITARIAN organisations want the government to declare the current situation in the country -- particularly in the two Matabeleland regions -- a national disaster, to speed up the allocation of resources to needy communities.

Acting upon critical communications received from Connaught Hospital's Care Manager, Dr. Desmond Olu-Black, through Sierra Leone's Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment, Hope of Africa's Director Abigail Thomas is directing a swift fundraising effort, starting with a formal black tie dinner dance to be held this Saturday, October 11th, 2008, 7:00pm to 1:00am at The Westin Atlanta ...

The number of Ethiopians needing emergency assistance has leapt by 40 percent from 4.6 million to 6.4 million people since June, Oxfam said citing latest official figures from the United Nations and the Ethiopian government.

Representatives of civil society, the media, faith-based organisations, public officers and parliamentarians from Cameroon, Central and Francophone West African countries have noted with regret that the hoarding of information by government officials negatively affects the socio-economic and political growth of a nation.

The Ministry of local government(Minaloc) has directed that all activities of Hope for the Orphans to Skills and Training (HOSTA), a local Non Government Organization, be halted for allegedly forging operational documents.

An NGO, Access to Justice, has described as unfortunate, Monday's attack on Justice Roland Amaize, Chairman of Edo Local Government Election Appeal Tribunal.

Money spent on workshops by NGOs operating in the north is a waste, Gulu Deputy RDC Martin Odong has said.

Mozambican schools are highly vulnerable to trafficking in children, the country's former first lady, Graca Machel, warned on Wednesday.

Bridge Foundation, an Accra-based NGO has presented football equipment to a colts club, Little Rock United, in Kokrobite, a suburb of Accra.

As Henning Melber underlines in his discussion of Pambazuka's commitment to social justice, solidarity is a multi-faceted notion of shifting meaning and use for its appropriators. Reviewing the experiences and intellectual traditions of figures such as Frantz Fanon and John Sanbonmatsu, Melber argues that while solidarity will never be a fixed state of mind, the goal of mediums like Pambazuka will ...

An impressive array of Foundations have met in New York to discuss programs being undertaken by the respective Foundations in Liberia. During the meeting, chaired by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, discussion focused on approaches through which the Foundations can scale up their activities for the effective implementation of programs in Liberia.

United Party for National Development (UPND) president, Hakainde Hichilema has said he will change the civil service work culture as a priority if elected president of Zambia.

The co-ordinator of the Diamond Hub, Dr Akolang Tombale, is confident Botswana is on the path to becoming a world diamond center after successfully luring two of the world's largest diamond technology companies to the country.

CARITAS Uganda has hit back at the disaster preparedness minister for accusing the organisation of feeding the Lord's Resistance Army rebels, hence delaying the signing of the final peace accord.

The Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed), a not-for-profit organization committed to advancing innovations in livestock health as a means of reducing poverty, announced today that it has received funding to carry out its mission of "protecting livestock, saving human life."

The warning posters start at the airport in the capital, Antananarivo, informing visitors that Madagascar says "NO to sex tourism" and "Malagasy women are not tourist souvenirs".

On August 27 and 28, 2008 , Tunis hosted the first meeting of the World Aids Campaign (WAC) , destined to identify civil society organizations in the North Africa Middle East region , to combat the AIDS epidemic.

THE deputy speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has hailed non-governmental organisations for their role in agricultural development.

Insecurity, drought and record-high food prices have led to a rapid escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Somalia, with some 3.25 million people now needing emergency aid, NGOs said.

A group of peacekeepers serving with the joint United Nations-African Union operation in Darfur were ambushed this afternoon while on patrol in the south of the war-torn Sudanese region.

Whether it is mischief or gross attention complex that propels Malam Shehu Sani's antics, one thing cannot be denied him - he seems to have an insatiable capacity for ruffling feathers in the Northern establishment.

MADAMFO-GHANA Limited, a non- governmental organization (NGO), has provided a 12-seater place of convenience, and a borehole for the people of Mmorontuo, in the Bosome-Freho District.

STATE minister for water Jennifer Namuyangu has called upon NGOs to help the Government mobilise resources to provide safe water for communities.

Dorfschulprojekt, a non-profit organisation registered in Hanau, Germany, has donated school materials to pupils of Akumalam Village in Mankon, Northwest Province.

Some elderly people in the Southwest Province have accused the government and the society at large of not treating them with reverence.