Tanzania on the GPS

Why should you join us?
The role of Linguists within GCHQ cannot be understated. Translating and analysing all kinds of foreign language material, Linguists use their specialist knowledge and expertise to assess pieces of information and provide valuable intelligence. Through their versatility and attention to detail, Linguists can help inform policy decisions, protect British interests and even save lives.
What you'll be doing
As a Linguist Trainee, you'll join GCHQ on a four year training scheme that will make you a fully-qualified Linguist. After promotion to this role, you'll read, listen and evaluate a wide range of foreign language material, producing gists, full transcriptions and assessing its value as intelligence.
The material may be highly technical and specialist, but you'll have enough training and support to become an expert. Aside from regular translation and assessment work, you'll produce intelligence reports for other government departments and the military. This will involve visiting customers in Whitehall so you can fully grasp their requirements. Elsewhere, you'll advise on technical intercept issues and, later in your career, have the chance to get involved in language research, technology and language training.
Training and Support
The four year training scheme starts in September 2008. Years one and two consist of full-time language re-training in a non-European language, carried out at GCHQ's language training facility, next to our main site in Cheltenham. In the final two years, you'll continue your structured training and start to gain valuable, on-the-job experience.
Entry Requirements
You must be a British citizen with at least one Modern Foreign Language 'A' level at grade B or above. If you're sitting an 'A' level in 2008, you'll need a projected grade of B or above.
For further information go to: http://targetjobs.co.uk/graduate-jobs/profile-advertiser-vac-details-2130emp_1580.aspx .

PUTTING TANZANIA ON THE GPS The president of Tanzania H.E Jakaya Kikwete , Hon Magret Beckett MP and the Commonwealth secretary general Hon Don Mackinon
The Tanzania First Lady and Mrs Cherie Blair

Dully Sykes European Tour 2007

Dully Sykes is conducting an end of the year European Tour. The tour is brought to you by Gadi Promotions and scheduled to take place in Holland, Germany and Belgium. This tour features Dully's Holland based DJ's Erick Barack and Zouk. The tour's first dates to be announced is the Holland concert at Centrum Wesseling, Houttuinenstraat 26, Delft 2611 AJ on 30th of November 2007. The show begins at 22:00hrs until 04:00hrs. E-mail Gadi Promotions for more information: charlesmwagadi@yahoo.com

Its not just cricket

It’s just not cricket:
Commonwealth must suspend Pakistan
Things have gone very wrong in Pakistan . Its journey towards democracy was further derailed last Saturday, when General Musharraf, the head of army, declared a state of emergency that suspended the Constitution, sacked members of the Supreme Court and suppressed all dissent across the country. The declaration came days before the Supreme Court was due to hand down a decision that may have stripped the General of the presidency, on the basis that it was illegal for him to head both the army and the Government. The response of the global community has ranged between outright condemnation of a virtual coup to reserved comments based in alliance, rather than recognition of the absolute disregard for democracy, the rule of law and judicial independence.

Next Monday – the 12th of November – a little known mechanism, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, or CMAG, will meet to consider the declaration of emergency in Pakistan . The Group will look at whether the declaration of emergency represents such a strong blow against the commitments to democracy and human rights underpinning Commonwealth membership that Pakistan should be suspended. This is a critical moment, both to confirm the fundamental political values of the Commonwealth, but also for the world, as CMAG is one of the few mechanisms that has the power to sanction a government treading so far from globally accepted standards of good governance. The United Nations doesn’t have this power – and its actions are moderated by eternal deliberation.

No one – least of all its South Asian neighbours – want an unstable, fragmented and ungovernable Pakistan . General Musharraf claims that the emergency is a move to ensure stability – and uses the threat of terrorism to justify the suppression of political opposition. The reality is that the emergency is creating exactly the environment that it seeks to prevent, and is putting regional security, democratic governance and the wellbeing of Pakistani communities at grave risk.

CMAG is the opportunity for the Commonwealth to reaffirm unequivocally that democracy, democratic processes and institutions, the rule of law and just and honest government are the fundamental political values of the Commonwealth (as set out in the Harare Declaration, the set of principles that CMAG is mandated to protect). Swift action signalling total disapproval of the General’s actions will reinforce that membership of the Commonwealth is predicated on an absolute promise to protect and promote these values. CMAG has taken action before – in Nigeria following the imposition of military rule in 1995 and in Fiji late last year, after Commodore Bainarama overthrew the democratically elected government.

Pakistan itself was suspended from the Commonwealth following General Musharraf’s military coup in 1999. It was readmitted as a member of the Commonwealth in 2004, on the basis of a promise to entrench democratic governance. General Musharraf also promised to hang up his army uniform, in recognition of the clear breach of democratic standards that comes with a leader heading up both the army and the government. General Musharraf has not kept this promise, despite further prodding from the Commonwealth Heads of Government in late 2005, international pressure, and the latest rounds of legal action inside Pakistan that precipitated the declaration of emergency. Pakistan has remained on CMAGs agenda since it rejoined the Commonwealth, in recognition of the tenuous state of democracy and human rights in the country.

CMAG must suspend Pakistan from the Commonwealth on Monday. It is a particularly significant moment, as the Commonwealth Heads of Government come together in a little over a fortnight for their biennial meeting, to discuss issues of concern in the Commonwealth and to set policy for the next two years. Pakistan ’s attendance at this meeting as a member of the Commonwealth would make an absolute mockery of the very basis of Commonwealth membership. It would also be the loss of a real chance for the world to demonstrate that internationally accepted principles of good governance and democracy are true standards and not just comforting words.
Regards
Daniel Woods
Coordinator
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

A month with Dr alistair Soyode

I spent a month trailing Dr Alistair Soyode , the Founder and CEO of BEN Television, just to see how he copes with the demands of his job .HIS meetings ranged from meeting youths from a deprived area, working experience, making a keynote speech in the commons or the london assembly,meeting heads of state, ministers , ambassadors,businesses people and so on Photo: Ayoub mzee
As the founder and initiator of the African Diaspora Investment Forum, the leading non-governmental organisation mobilising the Diaspora to invest in Africa by organising forum and seminars between African businesses in Africa and the Diaspora

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And through the African Business Forum aims to help, train, support and seek funding and partners for African businesses in the UK.

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Alistair Soyode is a pivotal member of the UK's black community, bridging the gap between the mainstream and grassroots

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Hands on approach

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DR Alistair Soyode, "It shows that people recognise the fact that we are doing something positive. People recognise that BEN TV is delivering positive content. We give a fair representation of the society at large and the whole team has worked very hard this year to get this far. ." Photo: Ayoub mzee

As an initiator of the African Business Roundtable (http://blackukonline.com/admin/www.abrnet.org), he was instrumental to the publishing of Invest Africa 2004, in association with Alhaji Bamanga Tukur's NEPAD Business Group (http://blackukonline.com/admin/www.nepadbusinessgroup.org).

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He is also a board member of the NICA organisation. A private sector organisation dealing with farmers and ensuring fair pricing and trade in Nigeria (http://blackukonline.com/admin/www.nicanig.org).

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Obalende Suya chief

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Alistair is the founder of Jadergroup Publishers, which operates as a marketing, publishing, event and sporting management firm in the UK.

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A much-sort-after speaker, he takes delight in mobilising youths to rise up as leaders of tomorrow.

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Alistair sees himself as an entrepreneur and visionary to get Black and Ethnic communities working together for the benefits of self-empowerment in the localities they find themselves

Business

open day

open day

John Uche - scheduling

other media gurus

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dialogue

Mr ebere- Marketing at work
big business staff party
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part of the admin office

A work experience intern
Among many of Awards won by BEN TV include Black Charisma Magazine, Prime Magazine’s Achievers Award (Black Pioneer TV station, UK), Black Business Initiative Award (Young Entrepreneur Of The Year, Presented by the Mayor of Southwark) and the Nigerian Achievers Award (Best Media Outfit).

TO BE CONTINUED...............on http://www.ayoubmzee.blogspot.com/

VIEW VIDEO: Spanish monarch's visit to North Africa sparks row Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:21:05

SYMPOSIUM ON THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN RWANDA AND TANZANIA Photo: Ayoub mzee

Workshop 1 Investment in Rwanda
Workshop2 -Investment in Tanzania

Photo: Ayoub mzee Rwanda president

Micro finance used to be known as basic banking model for villages in the developing world

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A diverse range of investment vehicle has emerged to channel private and public capital into micro finance institutions
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Micro finace instititions need significant assistance to proffessionlise and scale up their operations

For furthre details please visit http://www.ayoubmzee.blogspot.com/

know your local leaders

Know Your Local leaders:Mayor of Harringey-Councillor Sheik G. Thompson

The Mayor's webcast
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What is his role?
The Mayor has an important role to play in promoting the work of the council and supporting local community, voluntary and charitable organisations and in celebrating and recognising achievements and milestones.


Town Twinning Inviting the Mayor to a function How to contact the Mayor's OfficeAbout Councillor Thompson
Councillor Sheik G. Thompson has been elected as The Mayor of Haringey for the municipal year 2007-8. His wife Kyoko is his Mayoress during his Mayoral year.
Councillor Thompson was born in Jamaica to a strong musical family, grew up and became interested in Jazz in New York and then came to England in 1955. As an African-American serviceman in the United States Air Force Sheik formed part of the generation of black people who came to the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 60s to work and settle and in doing so brought Blues, Jazz, Mento-Ska, Reggae and other music to the British and London music and club scenes. Important influences that are still felt to this day.

Since the early 1960s Councillor Thompson’s jazz and rhythm and blues bands have played around Britain and Europe, alongside such leading musicians as Georgie Fame, Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, The Who, Mick Eves, Alan Price, the Animals and the Rolling Stones. Currently he leads the Jazz Bands CUE Ensemble and Dedeh All Stars, and is a member of the Musicians Union Jazz Section Committee.

The Mayor has lived in Tottenham for many years. As someone with a Jamaican-American-British background, he values and cherishes the diverse nature of our local community and will work for a prosperous and peaceful future for all its people.

He is currently the Chair of the Chestnut Area Residents Association, one of the most active Council tenants-leaseholders and residents groups in Haringey. He is also a member of the Haringey Community and Police Consultative Group.

Housing, education, community safety and economic development all present major challenges for Haringey. Councillor Thompson puts great importance on his work with various groups and panels within Haringey’s Voluntary and Community Sector and will continue to devote his time and efforts to ensure that the needs and proprieties of local people are properly represented in the various important decisions that face us now and in the future.

However, the Mayor puts great store in the development of the skills and opportunities for young people, and this linked with his extensive experience in the field of music means that this year he and his Special Fund Committee will be fundraising for the work of Haringey Young Musicians during his year of office, please see details of the Mayor's Special Fund and the Fundraising Committee.

Councillor Thompson is looking forward to working for all the people of Haringey wherever they live, and whatever their background, as they are all citizens of Haringey, and his role is to promote the borough and the work being achieved in providing improving services for all the communities in Haringey.

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Former Mayors of Haringey
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Somalia

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The secreteriat window at night

Report of the Commonwealth Secretary-General launched

The Secretary-General’s biennial report covering the work of the 53-nation Commonwealth and the Commonwealth Secretariat, its principal intergovernmental organisation, was launched on 30 October 2007. Ayoub mzee with the secretary General
“For all [the Commonwealth’s] previous triumphs – especially the way it supported the emergence of many proud and independent nations over several generations – the urgency of its current tasks, and the way it rises to them, is greater,” writes Mr McKinnon.

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The report – Transforming Societies, Changing Lives – looks at the Commonwealth’s work over the last two years, and its continuing efforts to meet the needs of the governments and peoples of its member states.

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Among those “current tasks” facing Commonwealth countries, Mr McKinnon made special mention of climate change, HIV/AIDS, education, poverty and political stability. The report explains how the Secretariat’s work aims to meet these challenges – from policy to practice and from advocacy to implementation; using some 20 project case histories. One example is the network of 500 Commonwealth youth ambassadors across three continents, which has been established to provide guidance and information to young people about HIV/AIDS.

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In order to enhance the Commonwealth’s international impact, the report also states that the Secretariat will keep co-operating and co-ordinating with “other international and regional organisations” including the UN, the European Union, the World Bank and regional groupings such as the Pacific Islands Forum.

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In the Gulu District of Northern Uganda, a project has been set up to help former child soldiers repair the trauma of their lost childhood.

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Building a democratic culture, sustaining development, meeting social development goals, empowering young people and multiplying the Commonwealth in impact and reach are the five “core work” areas which the report addresses. Within these areas, the report focuses on various aspects of the Secretariat’s work.

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This Plan acts as a framework for action in youth affairs. It guides all activities of the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP), including projects such as the Commonwealth Youth Credit Initiative (CYCI), which provides loans, training and support for unemployed young men and women. Having been piloted in Zambia, India, Guyana and Solomon Islands, it has since been replicated in a further 12 countries. In India alone nearly 1,000 people gained functional literacy through the project and 9,000 have been exposed to health awareness camps and exhibitions.

Launch of 'The End of Tolerance'
8 November 2007
Asian Dub Foundation-Education (ADFED) and Pluto Press are holding a reception to celebrate the publication of Arun Kundnani's book: The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st century Britain.
Thursday 8 November 2007, 6-9pm
Mezzanine Cafe, Rich Mix Centre, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Speakers:
Arun Kundnani
John Pandit - Asian Dub Foundation
Speakers from campaigns featured in the book.
Followed by music from ADFED's 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' project.
Please send an email to 'mail[at]endoftolerance.com' to confirm attendance (replacing [at] with the '@' symbol). The nearest tube to the Rich Mix Centre is Liverpool Street. Turn left out of the main station concourse onto Bishopsgate and walk north towards Shoreditch High Street before turning right onto Bethnal Green Road.
Events listing is provided for information only. Inclusion in this listing should not be taken to imply that the Institute of Race Relations supports an event or is involved in organising it.

Building communities: equality and diversity in action
7 November 2007
A conference to examine the distinct needs and experiences of refugees in the context of community cohesion, equality and diversity.
Wednesday 7 November 2007
Met Hotel Leeds, King Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, LS1 2HQ
For further information email: marketing@refugeecouncil.org.uk or phone 020 7346 6737. Another conference also takes place in London on 28 November.
Events listing is provided for information only. Inclusion in this listing should not be taken to imply that the Institute of Race Relations supports an event or is involved in organising it.

SOMALIA: Separetist killings-Caan Caanod Region

WATCH VIDEO: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qZhvx6FQ4xs
Those in North Western part of Somali who are pushing for a separatists region ex “British Somaliland” has applied aggression against the civilian population of Laas caanod, causing the first humanitarian and security crisis in this area.

Oct 15th “Somaliland” lead Militia blockaded the city by closing off the access roads, cut of all lines of communications and attacked the city of Laascaanod. 10s of 1000 have fled the once peaceful city and surrounding region fearing the heavy military weapons pushed into the area.
Women, men & children continuously demonstrate everyday and have been met with heavy violence and gunfire, killing women and children. Others have been dragged out of their homes and killed for opposing their administration.

The militia of that administration has also illegally taken hostage anyone who has attempted to report on the aggression, including women and children.
Incidents of men being run over by military vehicles have been reported rendering them disabled; moving them to and holding them hostage in cities within the North Western Somalia.
Some telephone lines have now been re-established.
Their militia continue to target the remaining population with threats of further violence as a means of silencing the civilians, bringing instability to a region which has not suffered from warfare for the last 17 years.
Lack of Democracy – Security Crisis

All the traditional leaders of this land stand shoulder to shoulder against this aggression and have echoed their people’s rejection and the opposition of this illegal occupation (both in Somalia and in the Diaspora).
The following link is of one of the demo in Laas caanod which has occurred every day since the aggression. The civilian population are not armed nor have any military weaponry; instead they resort to burning tyres, throwing rocks and their voice.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZhvx6FQ4xs
Abdul Nassir Ahmed Omar who is filming this has been taken hostage and we have no idea where he is. The militia has been accused of torturing individuals, kidnapping etc and there is legitimate concern that he could very well be subject to abuse.
Humanitarian Crisis
We now have a humanitarian crisis, with 1000’s displaced who have no shelter, place to sleep, food, drink, medical supplies etc while their homes are either empty, being destroyed or looted by the militia members. The majority of those still demonstrating in the city are children and women, inflation is taking its toll on the remaining supplies in the city with some basic amenities not available. (water, electricity, medical supplies etc).
We have approached Muslim Aid in order to help the IDP’s & have been promised that they will work with their Field office in Somalia. We look on to you to do the same.

Supporting Peace in a unified Somalia:
There is a real need to help the people of Laas caanod to bring stability and peace back to this once peaceful region and to unify the Somali people. The region has always supported the unification of Somalia and has not experienced any warfare for 17 years until this recent aggression.
Please joins efforts and contact us at the following email-
crisis@northernsomalia-watch.com