The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Fellowship 2021 for young African Professionals. (USD 3,000 Monthly Stipend)

Application Deadline: 14 April 2021 

ECA is the regional arm of the United Nations in Africa. Its mandate is to promote the economic and social development of Africa. ECA's dual role as a regional arm of the UN, and a part of the regional institutional landscape in Africa, positions it well to make unique contributions to member States' efforts to address their development challenges. Its strength derives from its role as the only UN agency mandated to operate at the regional and sub-regional levels to harness resources and bring them to bear on Africa's priorities.

Qualifications:

Education: Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree or doctorate or their equivalents) in international affairs, development, diplomacy, economics, political and social sciences, development, peace and human security, public administration, law, minerals and natural resources, engineering, and related field is required.

Benefits

The selected Fellows must be available to travel to the assigned duty station as may be decided by ECA after the selection process;
The selected Fellows will receive a return air ticket between his/her country of residence and the assigned duty station;

The selected Fellows will receive a one-off settling-in grant of USD 3,000 and a monthly stipend of USD 3,000 each for the duration of the fellowship. Note that the final month stipend will only be paid upon submission of:

 A peer-reviewed fellowship research paper,

 A comprehensive fellowship report, an approved final performance evaluation of the fellow,

 A completed fellowship programme evaluation form and

 An exit boarding pass or immigration stamp showing that the fellow has departed the duty station and returned back to his/her home country, where both are not the same, at the end of the fellowship programme.

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WHO says 7 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Africa

Nearly seven million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Africa targeting high-risk groups like healthcare workers, teachers and security officers, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said Thursday.

Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa said immunization drive against the virus has gained steam in the continent amid a quest to flatten the curve and reopen key economic sectors fully.

“Although Africa received vaccines late and in limited quantities, a lot of ground has been covered in a short space of time,” Moeti said in a statement issued in Nairobi.

“This is due to the continent’s vast experience in mass vaccination campaigns and the determination of its leaders and people to effectively curb COVID-19,” she added.

Statistics from WHO indicate that 38 African countries have received more than 25 million COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX facility and 30 of them have kicked off mass inoculation.

Moeti hailed determination by African countries to vaccinate citizens against coronavirus amid rising caseload linked to a third wave and circulation of new variants.

“Compared with countries in other regions that accessed vaccines much earlier, the initial rollout phase in some countries has reached a far higher number of people,” said Moeti.

Among Sub-Saharan African countries that have made strides in mass immunization against coronavirus include Ghana which has administered 420,000 doses, covering over 60 percent of the targeted population in the virus hotspot.

Morocco has administered more than 5.6 million vaccine doses in the last seven weeks while in Angola, the jabs have reached over 49,000 people, including 28,000 health care workers in the past week.

Moeti said COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Africa has been seamless but cautioned that stockpiles were on the brink of exhaustion hence the need for replenishment.

“Countries are clocking an impressive vaccination pace, but we must ensure this speed does not slow down to a crawl. Additional supplies are urgently required to narrow the gap between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated,”she said.

Richard Mihigo, immunization and vaccine development program coordinator at WHO Regional Office for Africa, said the continent has not recorded significant adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccine doses on recipients.

“Precautionary measures that are informed by science and data are in place to ensure that any side effect of the vaccine on the recipients is reported promptly,” said Mihigo.

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Honesty is marked as being free from deceit or untruthfulness, being sincere.

The Christian life should be one marked with integrity and honesty, yet because we all sin and find it easy to do so, honesty is something we must work hard at! A honest life is important on so many levels from relationships with spouses and children, at our workplace, and interacting with our neighbors. Matthew 7:16 tells us that we are known by our fruit. Let us be examples of a God of truth and life by living lives of integrity and truthfulness. Read the below Bible verses on honesty and remember God's blessings on those who live by truthful words and actions!

2 Timothy 2:15

15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Colossians 3:9

9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices

Ephesians 4:25

25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

JEREMIAH 17

Judah’s Sin and Punishment

1“The sin of Judah

is inscribed with an iron chisel—

engraved with a diamond point on their stony hearts

and on the corners of their altars.

2. Even their children go to worship

at their pagan altars and Asherah poles,

beneath every green tree

and on every high hill.

3. So I will hand over my holy mountain—

along with all your wealth and treasures

and your pagan shrines—

as plunder to your enemies,

for sin runs rampant in your land.

4. The wonderful possession I have reserved for you

will slip from your hands.

I will tell your enemies to take you

as captives to a foreign land.

For my anger blazes like a fire

that will burn forever.”

Wisdom from the Lord

5This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans,

who rely on human strength

and turn their hearts away from the Lord.

6They are like stunted shrubs in the desert,

with no hope for the future.

They will live in the barren wilderness,

in an uninhabited salty land.

7“But blessed are those who trust in the Lord

and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.

8They are like trees planted along a riverbank,

with roots that reach deep into the water.

Such trees are not bothered by the heat

or worried by long months of drought.

Their leaves stay green,

and they never stop producing fruit.

9“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,

and desperately wicked.

Who really knows how bad it is?

10. But I, the Lord, search all hearts

and examine secret motives.

I give all people their due rewards,

according to what their actions deserve.”

Jeremiah’s Trust in the Lord

11. Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid,

so are those who get their wealth by unjust means.

At midlife they will lose their riches;

in the end, they will become poor old fools.

12. But we worship at your throne—

eternal, high, and glorious!

13. O Lord, the hope of Israel,

all who turn away from you will be disgraced.

They will be buried in the dust of the earth,

for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.

14. O Lord, if you heal me, I will be truly healed;

if you save me, I will be truly saved.

My praises are for you alone!

15. People scoff at me and say,

“What is this ‘message from the Lord’ you talk about?

Why don’t your predictions come true?”

16Lord, I have not abandoned my job

as a shepherd for your people.

I have not urged you to send disaster.

You have heard everything I’ve said.

17Lord, don’t terrorize me!

You alone are my hope in the day of disaster.

18Bring shame and dismay on all who persecute me,

but don’t let me experience shame and dismay.

Bring a day of terror on them.

Yes, bring double destruction upon them!