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December 2007

Monday, December 31
The Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture (RTÉ), RTÉ Radio 1, 2pm
The annual lecture was delivered this year by managing director of the World Bank, Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Entitled "A Transforming Africa; Opportunities and Challenges", it was recorded in front of a live, interactive audience on December 13. Former Nigerian Foreign and Finance Minister, Okonjo-Iweala has been a member or chair of numerous boards and advisory groups, including Bono's DATA. The lecture is now available online as are previous lectures in honour of Radio 1’s late Features and Arts Editor. News article: Ireland is example to Africa - World Bank MD (Irish Times, 14/12/07).

African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur will expire and authority expected to be transferred to a combined force, United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)

Mandate of U.N. peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo expires

Two-year term of five of the 10 non-permanent members of the 15-nation U.N. Security Council - Republic of Congo, Ghana, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia - expires

Chief prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes tribunal for Balkans, Carla del Ponte, due to step down

Mandate of the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq expires

Sunday, December 30
EU El Dorado, Different Voices, Newstalk, 7.00am – 8.00am and repeated at 9.00pm – 10.00pm
Every year thousands of Africans risk their lives in flimsy fishing boats crossing the Atlantic to Europe. But why do so many of them do it? The truth lies uncomfortably close to home here in Ireland: West African fishing stocks are being massively depleted by EU ‘super-trawlers’, among them Irish-owned vessels. Louise Williams visits the beaches of Senegal in West Africa to talk to young fishermen about this perilous journey. Recipient of the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund.

First anniversary of execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein

Thursday, December 27
Kenya presidential and parliamentary elections. See news story.

Tentative date for start of nine-day peace congress for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Wednesday, December 26
Third anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami

Monday, December 24
Ethiopian court rules in the case against two Ethiopian civil society members charged with treason following bloody protests after controversial elections in 2005

Sunday, December 23
Israelis and Palestinians hold the next round of formal peace negotiations on Dec. 23 or 24

Uzbekistan presidential elections

Thailand general elections

Saturday, December 22
Ivory Coast government troops and rebels controlling country’s north to start disarming before forming new national army

Lebanese lawmakers scheduled to convene to choose a new president

Friday, December 21
Chad kidnap trial

Six workers from the charity Zoe’s Ark will be tried in the Chad capital, N’Djamena

Thursday, December 20
International Human Solidarity Day

Nigerian criminal trial of U.S. drug maker Pfizer over 1996 drug trial resumes

Wednesday, December 19
United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation (UNDP) Contact: Rogel Nuguid; rogel.nuguid@undp.org

Tuesday, December 18
Worlds Apart Programme 11, RTE Radio 1 10.02 pm
Colombia: Journalism in armoured cars
Listen to the series.

International Migrants Day (UN-DESA) Contact: Hania Zlotnik; zlotnik@un.org; +1 212 - 963 - 3179

Launch of the World Youth Report 2007
The report will examine the challenges and opportunities existing for the roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the world. Contact: Patience Stephens; stephensp@un.org; +1 212 963 8390.

Sunday, December 16
Launch of Keeping Africa Small and Subsistence Farmer, two documentaries from WORLDwrite whose slogan is Ferraris for all and who believe anti-poverty campaigners have low horizons for Africa.

Final candidate list for Pakistan elections due to be published. Pakistan’s state of emergency imposed on Nov. 3 expected to be lifted

Parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan

Spanish actor Javier Bardem and MSF host London screening of a film on silent crises followed by panel discussion on how the mainstream media reports on humanitarian crises

National conference of African National Congress, South Africa

Saturday, December 15
Sudan’s northern army has until Dec. 15 to leave the country’s semi-autonomous and oil-rich south

Thursday, December 13
The Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture (RTE), Studio 1, RTE radio Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, 7pm sharp, seated from 6:45pm.
The annual lecture will be delivered this year by managing director of the World Bank, Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Entitled "A Transforming Africa; Opportunities and Challenges", it will be recorded in front of a live, interactive audience for broadcast on RTE Radio 1. Former Nigerian Foreign and Finance Minister, Okonjo-Iweala has been a member or chair of numerous boards and advisory groups, including Bono's DATA. Open to the public. For tickets, contact denise.sammon@RTE.ie or (01) 208-2215 by Wednesday December 5. Previous lectures in honour of Radio 1’s late Features and Arts Editor.

Developing Leadership for Human Rights Education, Dublin Castle
The third annual Cross-border conference on Human Rights Education is hosted by LIFT OFF, the human rights education initiative for primary schools in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, as well as Amnesty International Irish Section, Amnesty International UK Section, INTO, UTU and Education International, in association with the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Irish Human Rights Commission. Contact the Human Rights Education team at 01 6776361 or register.

Launch of World Disasters Report by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Carla del Ponte, prosecutor at the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, holds farewell news conference, The Hague, Netherlands

Wednesday, December 12
"Dispatches from Disaster Zones" conference organised by the British Red Cross, London. Contact Nadia Gattan on +44 (0)20 7877 7049

Launch of survey on British attitudes to war, commissioned by International Committee of the Red Cross to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions. Contact Leila Blacking at ICRC London on +44 (0)207 877 7048

Israel and Palestinian representatives hold first session of talks as part of an U.S.-backed peace effort to try to secure a peace deal by the end of 2008 that would create a Palestinian state

Tuesday, December 11
Worlds Apart Programme 10: Tanzania: Who Benefits from Tourism, RTE Radio 1 10.02 pm
The developing world needs the tourist dollar. But does the money stay in the destination country, or does it return to lands from which the visitors came? Listen to the series.

Annual pledging conference for U.N. refugee agency, Geneva

Sudanese human rights lawyer Salih Mahmoud Osman will receive the 2007 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought

Monday, December 10
Is Christmas the time we should be thinking about the rest of the world? – The media and global development, Cleraun University Centre, 90 Foster Avenue, Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin (tel: 288 1734), 20.00 to 21.30

Juno McEnroe (TBC) has been a journalist with the Irish Examiner since 2003, covering political, crime and foreign stories. He has reported several times from Africa, and in the New Year will be reporting from Kenya and probably from Chad. After completing an MA in journalism in 2000, he worked freelance with the Sunday Times and Ireland on Sunday (now the Irish Daily Mail).Part of Cleraun Media Forum 2007. Contact: Paul Harman.

Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Human Rights Day

Contact Group of Balkan advisors on the future of Serbia’s breakaway province of Kosovo due to mediate a solution, and expected to report to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by Dec. 10 deadline. Time up for Kosovo status talks; 'Early independence' for Kosovo (BBC, 10/12/07)

U.N. Conference on Asylum and Islam, Kuala Lumpur

Press launch of report on humanitarian action in 2006, Medecins sans Frontieres and the Conflict and Humanitarian Action Studies Institute (IECAH), Madrid. Contact Fernando Garcia Calero at IECAH for information

Start of trial of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on charges he told police squads to carry out two massacres and two kidnappings when Peru was battling the Maoist Shinning Path insurgency, Lima

Tanzania hosts African Population Conference (to Dec. 14)

Sunday, December 9
Nobel Peace Prize press conference. Nobel Peace Prize laureates Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri hold press conference in Oslo.

International Anti-Corruption Day

Bosnia’s election commission has called for an early presidential election in the Serb Republic to fill a legal gap left after the sudden death of the region’s president Milan Jelic on Sept. 30

Saturday, December 8
Sound the Alarm for Action on Climate Change, parade. From the amphitheatre at Dublin’s Civic Offices to the Custom House, from 1pm.
The Stop Climate Chaos Coalition is hosting a Parade for the Planet which will see supporters making their own carbon-neutral way along the route, by foot, bike, skateboard and buggy, ringing bells and blowing whistles to Sound the Alarm for Action on Climate Change. At 2 p.m. the bells of churches from around the city and the country will ring out to signal that the world must warm by no more than two degrees centigrade if mankind is to continue to live here with any level of comfort and safety. The Government will be invited to receive over 25,000 petition signatures. Part of a Global day of action on climate change to coincide with U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Bali.

EU-Africa Summit, Lisbon (to Dec. 9)

Friday, December 7
Education for Sustainable Development – Ireland’s National Strategy – Have your say, Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, 9.45 am – 3.45 pm.
Seminar. Speakers: Professor Charles Hopkins, UNESCO Chair, York University, Toronto; Dean Eugene Rutembesa and Dr Joseph Iyakaremye, National University of Rwanda; Dr Roland Tormey, University of Limerick, and Mr John Gormley TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Reservations: manager@ecounesco.ie or call Selam on 01 6625491.

Building Tomorrow’s World Today, NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast BT15 2GB, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
This conference aims to put sustainability at the top of all our agendas. Inspirational speakers including Jerry Greenfield of the world famous Ben & Jerry’s, Alice Owen the UK Sustainable Development Commissioner and Kenny Boyd, who hit the headlines recently for his amazing swim from Ballycastle to Rathlin, will all give their unique views on what sustainability is and why it matters. Contact Teresa Flanagan on 028 9087 7777 or email teresa.flanagan@nicva.org

DR Congo’s parliamentary elections to be re-run in some constituencies where results from June 24 and August 5 voting were annulled by the Constitutional Court

Kosovo briefing from Minority Rights Group. Contact Farah Mihlar or Emma Eastwood on +44 (0)207 422 4205

Lebanese lawmakers scheduled to convene to choose new president

Nigerian and Cameroonian officials to discuss the handover of Bakassi peninsula, which has offshore oil deposits, to Cameroon, in line with a 2002 ruling by the International Court of Justice, United States

"2007 Right Livelihood Awards", known as Sweden’s "Alternative Nobel Prize"

Thursday, December 6
Trading Down: How the EU Locks African Countries into Poverty, Galway One World Centre, Bridge Mills, Dominick Street, Galway, 7.30 pm
Talk on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) by Colin Roche (Oxfam Ireland).

Resumption of the voluntary repatriation of Sudanese refugees from Ethiopia, which was suspended in May due to the rainy season

Transparency International to launch "Global Corruption Barometer 2007"

NATO foreign ministers meeting (to Dec. 7)

Wednesday, December 5
Ministerial meeting of the EU-Africa Summit expected to convene, Egypt

HIV&AIDS: Red Ribbons or Pipe Dreams – Can We Stamp Out Stigma? Comhlámh’s First Wednesday Debate, Bewley’s Café Theatre, Grafton Street, Dublin 2, 6.15 – 7.45 pm.
Speakers: Noel Walsh (Stamp Out Stigma), Gladys Mabaso (CEPHAC Zimbabwe). Chair: Nicola Brennan (Department of Foreign Affairs. All welcome. No reservations needed. Early arrival advised. Contact: 01 4783490; paul@comhlamh.org or deirdre@comhlamh.org. Partly funded by Irish Aid.

Hearing in the $2 billion civil suit brought by Kano state against U.S. drugmaker Pfizer based on the Trovan drug

Tuesday, December 4
Third International Conference on the Oslo Process, Vienna (to Dec. 7).
Delegates from some 70 countries who support a total ban on cluster bombs meet. The countries are taking part in a parallel process launched in Oslo in February aimed at negotiating a pact by the end of 2008. Cluster Munitions Coalition (CMC) media advisory.

Monday, December 3
U.N. Conference on Climate Change (to Dec. 14), Bali. Kyoto Protocol signatories meet on cutting greenhouse gas emissions

International Day of Disabled Persons (UN Enable) "Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities". Around 10 per cent of the world’s population, or 650 million people, live with a disability. They are the world’s largest minority. The World Bank estimates that 20 per cent of the world’s poorest people have some kind of disability, and tend to be regarded in their own communities as the most disadvantaged. Contact Thomas Shindlmay; +1 212 - 963 - 3203. Connect-World also recommends any of the speakers at this recent event in Dublin on disability and development. More on disability.

G8 Foreign Ministers meeting, Berlin

International Women’s Media Foundation to hold online chat (from 13:00 to 15:00 GMT) to commemorate World AIDS Day. Media leaders and experts in Africa will discuss, among other things, the role of the media in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Sunday, December 2
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

Saturday, December 1
U.N. World Aids Day. The World AIDS Campaign has announced the theme of ‘Leadership’ under the banner of “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.” for World AIDS Day 2007-2008.

Democratic Republic of Congo government will prepare a detailed plan by Dec. 1, with the backing of the country’s U.N. peacekeeping mission, to disarm the Rwandan Hutu rebels on its soil as part of a deal reached with Rwanda

November 2007

November
The Dáil will be asked to approve the deployment of hundreds of Irish troops to the Darfur conflict in the next few weeks. UPDATE: Cabinet approval was given on November 21.

Friday, November 30
EU-India Summit, India

2007 Atlantic storm season expected to end

Al Gore gives keynote speech at second annual Fortune Forum Summit, which convenes philanthropists to tackle the interdependent issues of climate change, global poverty and healthcare. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Sir Bob Geldof, Daryl Hannah, and Damien Rice are among those expected to attend.

Thursday, November 29
Children affected by HIV and AIDS - The second Professor Michael J Kelly lecture on HIV and AIDS, O’Flanagan Lecture Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 (York Street entrance), 6.30 – 8 pm (welcome reception at 6 pm).
Lecture sponsored by Irish Aid. Guest speakers: Honorary Professor Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, M.P., Minister of Health for Botswana, and Professor Michael J Kelly, University of Zambia. Please RSVP to sinead.lynch@dfa.ie no later than 24 November. Professor Kelly is available for interview all this week. Contact: owen.feeney@dfa.ie, (01) 408-2910, (087) 778-8830. World AIDS Day is on December 1.

15th Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ministerial council, Madrid (to Nov. 30)

Trial of Judith Asuni and Danjuma Saidu, an American peace worker and her Nigerian colleague, accused of breaking the Official Secrets Act, Abuja, Nigeria

Wednesday, November 28
"Towards Journalism of Conscience: The Media and the Challenge of Rural Poverty", Swift lecture theatre, Trinity College Dublin Arts Block, 7-9pm.
Connect-World, TCD and NUI Maynooth present a lecture by Palagummi Sainath. Sainath has won over 30 national and international journalism awards.

EU-China summit, China

Indonesia, which has destroyed vast tracts of forest, will plant 79 million trees in a single day, part of a global campaign to plant one billion trees launched at U.N. climate change talks in Nairobi last year

Conference on "Perspectives on the Civil-Military Nexus in Afghanistan and Beyond", Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London (to Nov. 29)

Tuesday, November 27
Global launch of 2007/2008 Human Development Report, "Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world"

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Time for action? Options to address climate change, Alexander Hotel, Merion Square, Dublin 2, (6)6.30-8pm
Speaker: Dr Bert Metz, Environmental Assessment Agency, the Netherlands and Co-chair Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 3. Part of the EPA's climate change lecture series [PDF]. Bookings (free)/ enquiries: Clara Clark, 01-2898533, info@claraclark.ie. Refreshments, registration: 6.00pm.

Seminar: The Global Sex Industry, Royal Dublin Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin, 7.30pm-9.30pm

United States hosts a Middle East peace conference to launch formal negotiations to create a Palestinian state

An independent border commission on the Eritrea/Ethiopia frontier to meet

Monday, November 26
The Quartet of Middle East mediators meet one day ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood

Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority hold another round of talks on the future of the breakaway province, Kosovo (to Nov. 28)

30th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva (to Nov. 30).
The event, based on the theme "Together for Humanity", will bring together the entire Movement plus the 194 States party to the Geneva Conventions. Opening ceremony and humanitarian debate, hosted by the BBC’s Lyse Doucet, takes place on 26 November. A side event on the protection of journalists will also be held this date. Journalists can contact Anna Nelson or Pierre Kremer for more details and to set up interviews. Contact Pierre Kremer, Head of Media for the International Federation: Tel: +41 22 730 4914 / +41 79 226 4832.

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation awards its Prize for Achievement in African leadership to former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano

Conference on "Post-Conflict Security, Justice and Reconciliation in Africa", Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London

Resumption of criminal and civil cases brought by Nigerian federal government against Pfizer over 1996 drug trial

Start of a public -- and likely televised -- trial of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on charges over two massacres and kidnappings carried out when Peru was battling the Maoist Shinning Path insurgency

Sunday, November 25
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence November 25 - December 10 (Human Rights Day)
16 forms of gender-based violence. Related story: Domestic violence in the Russian Federation; sex slavery in India; self-immolation in Central Asian republics; gender-based violence and HIV; and ‘compensation’ marriages are five under-reported stories (27/11/07). They were compiled by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to mark the beginning of the 16 days.

Saturday, November 24
Development’s Futures Conference 2007, sponsored by Irish Aid and hosted by NUI Galway (to Nov 25 )
Official Opening by: Minister of State for Overseas Development, Mr Michael Kitt, TD
Keynote Speaker: Michael Edwards, Ford Foundation
Plenary Session: Mr Palagummi Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of the Hindu of Chennai and winner of the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts.

Friday November 23
Connect-World / NUJ joint workshop on the media coverage of development issues, Dublin.
This is part of the NUJ’s international “Standing up for Journalism” campaign. A new report commissioned by Connect-World will be launched at the event: 'Media Coverage of the White Paper on Irish Aid and the Joint Consortium’s Second Report on Gender-Based Violence, 2006'. The report was prepared by the DCU School of Communications and the DIT School of Journalism. For further information contact info@connect-world.net

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Kampala, Uganda (to Nov 25). Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles to attend

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud’s term expires

Thursday, November 22
The Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders, Dublin Castle. (to Nov 24)
This gathering provides a unique opportunity for at-risk defenders from throughout the world to come together to exchange experiences, discuss relevant issues and engage with decision makers from governmental and intergovernmental bodies. Further information: Orla Lehane, Conference Organiser; 01 2100472; orlalehane@frontlinedefenders.org.

African heads of state summit to relaunch stalled New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) process, Dakar

EU-ASEAN Summit, Singapore. Burma is likely to be on the agenda.

Wednesday, November 21
Inside Burma: Land of Fear, Seomra Spraoi, 4 Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1 (off Capel St., opp. D7 restaurant), 7.30pm.
VSI and Burma Action Ireland are hosting a film screening and discussion in light of recent events in Burma.
The John Pilger documentary Inside Burma: Land of Fear was first broadcast in 1996 will be introduced by a speaker from the Burma Action Ireland group, and followed by Q&As and a discussion. Contact: info@vsi.ie; 01 8551011.

Tuesday, November 20
International response to the 2004 Asian Tsunami, Dóchas office, 12 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, 12.30 p.m.
Dóchas will host a meeting with Dr Mala de Alwis (see event on Monday November 19).

Universal Children's Day and 18th Anniversary of The Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF). Contact: Geoff Keele; gkeele@unicef.org; +1 212 - 326 - 7583

Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority meet with EU, Russian and U.S. envoys for a new round of talks on the future of the breakaway province of Kosovo

Chief Khmer Rouge inquisitor Duch makes first public appearance at "Killing Fields" Tribunal for a formal bail hearing

Africa Industrialization Day (UNIDO)

Monday, November 19
The Metro Éireann Media and Multicultural Awards 2007, The Radisson SAS, Royal Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8, 7 pm.
Please RSVP by 12 November to Pawel Bartyna, Metro Éireann, 01 8783441; mama@metroeireann.com.

A Community of Dependents? The Politics of Aid in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka - A Public Interview, Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, Grafton Street, Dublin 2, 6-8pm
Speaker: Malathi (Mala) de Alwis, feminist scholar & activist at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Interviewer: Karen Coleman, presenter of The Wide Angle with Karen Coleman on Newstalk 106FM. Further information: 091-530590 or email: info@galwayowc.org. Organised by Galway One World Centre and Comhlamh and funded by Dochas. All Welcome. Entrance free.

Dr Alwis also teaches in the MA Program in Women’s Studies at the Faulty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo and was previously Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York. She earned her PH.D. in Socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Sunday, November 18
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
Road traffic accidents are expected to be the fourth leading cause of death and disability in low income countries by 2030 (See Table 6 [PDF]).

Singapore hosts 13th ASEAN annual summit (to Nov. 22)

EuroMed Ministerial Meeting on Migration (to Nov. 19), Algarve, Portugal

Saturday, November 17
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is expected to release the fourth and final "Synthesis Report" summing up all the findings from its previous reports outlining increasing risks from global warming, Valencia, Spain. Contact: Carola Traverso Saibante, Dan Shepard; CSaibante@wmo.int, shepard@un.org; +41 22 730 8066, +1 212 963 9495. Media advisory.

THE FIRST CASUALTY? War, Truth and the Media Today. London School of Economics, 2pm-6.30pm
Half-day conference hosted by Media Workers Against the War. See also.
(Contributor Andrew Gilligan's biography on the conference website is short and sweet: "sacked by the BBC".)

Kosovo holds parliamentary and local elections

The attorney general of Kano state, Aliyu Umar, will lead a delegation to hold talks with U.S. drugmaker Pfizer in the criminal and civil cases brought by the Nigerian state

Friday, November 16
The first STARS impact awards to be presented to three African organisations that have made a difference to the lives of disadvantaged children, London.

International Day For Tolerance

Thursday, November 15
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to submit by mid-November to the U.N. Security Council a timetable for the gradual reduction of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Wednesday, November 14
World Diabetes Day 2007
Diabetes causes about 5% of all deaths globally each year. 80% of people with diabetes live in low and middle income countries. Most people with diabetes in low and middle income countries are middle-aged (45-64), not elderly (65+). Diabetes deaths are likely to increase by more than 50% in the next 10 years without urgent action (WHO).

South African President Thabo Mbeki to deliver speech at the First U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Africa (to Nov. 17)

Kenyan political parties to make official presidential candidate nominations for Dec. 27 elections (to Nov. 15)

Presentation of 2007 Kurt Schork Awards for International Journalism, Frontline Club, London. For the second year in a row, the Kurt Schork Memorial Awards have honoured a journalist killed in Iraq because of critical reporting (press release). Contact: alan@iwpr.net