Fwd:

The sprawling empire of dgCommunities has relaunched as http://www.Zunia.org on typo3 CMS platform...

Job: MSF Communications Director, Abu Dhabi

Job: Regional coordinator – Middle East and North Africa (SciDev.Net)

Job: Membership and Communications Officer at AlertNet: http://www.alertnet.org/thepeople/jobs/124447574289.htm

Chinese-language newspaper launched in Botswana: http://www.sfnblog.com/launches_closures/2009/06/chinese_language_newspaper_launched_in_b.php (via @kenyapundit)

Acacia tree new to science found in Ogaden (FT)

Perhaps not quite the Elgin Marbles, but the British return Nuer artifacts to Sudan this week: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article30961

RT @mc_sunw #swineflu We live in the end of days: it's the aporkalypse.

UC Berkeley Fellowships for African Journalists: http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/press/african_journalists/

Games for Change: http://www.gamesforchange.org/ 

Towards a taxonomy of "Serious Games": http://www.businessandgames.com/blog/2009/04/tribalization_socialized_tv_ga.html

Extract:

"YOUR INTENTION WITH YOUR GAME IS TO:

1. raise AWARENESS of issues
2. train MOTOR functions
3. develop SOCIAL skills
4. develop sudden onset CRISES response skills
5. develop HUMAN CAPITAL and workforce
6. improve MIND & BODY
7. develop BUSINESS prowess
8. improve ORGANIZATIONAL management
9. improve CREATIVITY
10. impart KNOWLEDGE"

Nice work if you can get it. Kenya's Safaricom charges 10% interest (sorry, fee) for 3 days of credit for mobile top ups...

Job: Communications Officer, ICG:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6027&l=1

Job:

ISDR/G/03/2009

L-5

Head of Regional Office – Africa

Nairobi, Kenya

12 April 2009

Shooting mosquitoes with a laser (WSJ, via War and Health): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680870885500701.html