The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) Internship Program 2021

 Application Deadline: unspecified 

The OPEC Fund offers an Internship Program enabling students from diverse academic backgrounds to experience work with an international organization.

Interns are assigned to different departments/units depending on their interests and qualifications, and according to departmental needs. The Internship Program offers opportunities to focus on one or more of the following: public sector operations; private sector and trade finance operations; grants; financial management; risk management; strategic planning and economic services; internal audit; human resources; administration; communication; legal services; and information technology.

Work assignments undertaken by interns may include:

Conducting research;
Writing documents;
Organizing information; and
Assisting employees with their day-to-day work.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants must be between 19 to 25 years of age and enrolled in an undergraduate program (having completed at least two years) or graduate program. Alternatively, applicants may be recent graduates, having graduated a maximum of one year before the application deadline.

Applicants must be:

Proficient in English. Knowledge of an additional language (e.g. French, Spanish, Arabic) is an asset;
Computer literate in standard software applications (Microsoft Office);
Keenly interested in the work of the OPEC Fund;
Able to demonstrate cultural awareness; and
Able to demonstrate the OPEC Fund’s core values (Integrity, Empowerment, Excellence, Innovation, Community).

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ANGOLAN EMBASSY UNVEILS 4 DE FEVEREIRO EXHIBITION

 The Embassy of Angola to Portugal inaugurated last Thursday on its web page a virtual photo exhibition on the celebration of the February, 4  date of the beginning of the Armed Struggle for National Liberation.

Entitled “4 de Fevereiro a Mark of Our History” the displays shows defining moments of the journey that driven Angola from 1961 to the proclamation of the National Independence on 11 November 1975.

This exhibition that is to preserve and honor in a simple way the memory of the Angolan Homeland heroes is accompanied by a message of the Ambassador of Angola in Portugal Carlos Alberto Fonseca.

In a message the diplomat highlights the transcendent historic significant made by nationalists in the beginning and in the context of the armed struggle with wider range of the Portuguese colonies in Africa whose wars contributed to stimulate as well the collapse of the dictatorship and the colonialist system then in force.

COVID-19: ANGOLA RECORDS 50 RECOVERIES, 34 NEW CASES

 Angola has reported 50 recoveries, 34 new infections and one death in the last 24 hours.

According to the secretary of state for public health, Franco Mufinda, of the patients recovered, 21 live in Luanda, 17 in Huambo, 10 in Cuanza Sul and two in Benguela, aged between four and 86.

The deaths, he said, involved a 63-year old Angolan citizen.

Among the new infections, 21 were male and 13 female, with ages ranging from 11 months to 59 years, 26 were diagnosed in Luanda and eight in Huambo.

Angola has 20,030 positive cases, with 474 deaths, 18,431 recoveries and 1,125 active. Of the active, two are in critical condition, eight severe, 88 moderate, 87 with mild symptoms and 940 asymptomatic.

Laboratories processed 1,040 samples on a molecular biology basis, with a daily positivity rate of 3.3 percent.

At least 145 people are in institutional quarantine, 185 are hospitalized, and 2,025 are under epidemiological surveillance.

Luanda province has released three people from the institutional quarantine centres.

The Mental Health and Psychosocial Intervention Team assisted 31 people.

 

Tunisia demonstrators defy lockdown to protest police brutality

 Rally held to mark the anniversary of the 2013 killing of a prominent activist and to protest against police abuses.

Hundreds of protesters backed by Tunisia’s powerful labour union gathered in central Tunis on Saturday, defying a police lockdown that blocked roads in a large area of the capital.

The rally was held to mark the anniversary of the 2013 killing of a prominent activist and to protest against police abuses that demonstrators say have imperiled freedoms won in the 2011 revolution.

Riot police deployed cordons around the city centre, stopping cars and many people from entering the streets around Avenue Habib Bourguiba, a witness told Reuters news agency.

“I lived 10 years in freedom … I am not ready to lose it,” said Haytem Ouslati, a 24-year-old demonstrator. Protesters raised placards condemning police violence and chanted: “No fear. The street belongs to the people.”

Unlike previous marches in a wave of protests that have spread across Tunisia in recent weeks, Saturday’s rally was backed by the UGTT union, the country’s most powerful political organisation with a million members.

Samir Cheffi, a senior UGTT official, said the protest was needed to protect liberties. “Today is a cry of alarm to defend the revolution, to protect freedoms under threat,” he said.

Protests which began last month over inequality have increasingly focused on a large number of arrests and reports – denied by the Interior Ministry – of abuse of detainees.

Mohammed Ammar, a member of parliament for the Attayar party, said he had phoned the prime minister to protest against the closure of central Tunis.

Protesters chanted against the moderate Islamist Ennahdha party, a member of successive government coalitions, and reprised the Arab Spring slogan: “The people want the fall of the regime.”

Ten years after Tunisia’s revolution, its political system is mired in squabbling between the president, prime minister and the parliament as the economy stagnates.

While some Tunisians are disillusioned by the fruits of the uprising, others have decried a perceived erosion of the freedoms that democracy secured.

For some, the febrile climate has recalled the political polarisation after a suspected hardliner assassinated secular activist and lawyer Chokri Belaid in February 2013.

His death triggered a wave of protests in Tunisia that led to a grand bargain between the main Islamist and secular political parties to stop the country from sinking into violence.

“We won’t accept Tunisia becoming a barracks. We ask the president to intervene and protect freedoms,” said Naima Selmi, a woman in the protest.