• To provide important interns with practical experience which complements individual field of study while also benefitting the UN offices to which the intern is assigned;
• To promote among the interns a better understanding of major global problems confronting the world and to give them an insight into how the UN attempts to find solutions to these problems, and;
• To expose the interns to the UN and its policies and programmes and have them become ambassadors of good will.

Internship assignments take place at UNDP Offices in Nairobi.

Language Requirements:

In that the UN Secretariat has two working languages, English and French, intern candidates should have fluency in at least one of the two working languages.

Conditions of Internship:

Interns receive no remuneration. Costs of travel and accomodation, living expenses included, are the responsibility of interns or their sponsoring institutions.

Interns are solely responsible for obtaining the necessary visas and arranging their travel to their duty station.

Applying for Internship: Please ensure that both the letter and the CV are in MS Word Format.

Send your application under a cover letter, attaching your curriculum vitae (CV) to internship.ke[at]undp.org

• To provide important interns with practical experience which complements individual field of study while also benefitting the UN offices to which the intern is assigned;
• To promote among the interns a better understanding of major global problems confronting the world and to give them an insight into how the UN attempts to find solutions to these problems, and;
• To expose the interns to the UN and its policies and programmes and have them become ambassadors of good will.

Internship assignments take place at UNDP Offices in Nairobi.

Language Requirements:

In that the UN Secretariat has two working languages, English and French, intern candidates should have fluency in at least one of the two working languages.

Conditions of Internship:

Interns receive no remuneration. Costs of travel and accomodation, living expenses included, are the responsibility of interns or their sponsoring institutions.

Interns are solely responsible for obtaining the necessary visas and arranging their travel to their duty station.

Applying for Internship: Please ensure that both the letter and the CV are in MS Word Format.

Send your application under a cover letter, attaching your curriculum vitae (CV) to internship.ke[at]undp.org

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A Commonwealth ministerial mission is due to arrive in the Maldives capital, Malé, on 17 February to ascertain the facts surrounding the transfer of power last week in the South Asian state.

The group will be led by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Communications of Trinidad & Tobago, the Hon Surujrattan Rambachan. He will be accompanied by Hon Dr Dipu Moni, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh and Mr Dennis Richardson AO, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) decided to send the mission as soon as possible when it met by teleconference on 12 February.

Announcing the mission, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma, who convened the extraordinary teleconference, said: “This is an important ministerial mission, that is to be seen as part of the Commonwealth‘s continuing engagement with Maldives. It should also be viewed in the context of the Commonwealth‘s abiding commitment to its fundamental political values.”

The delegation will hold discussions with key interlocutors on circumstances surrounding the resignation of President Mohamed Nasheed on 7 February 2012. Before it commences its work, it will be briefed by the Commonwealth Secretariat team that has been in the country since 6 February.

The CMAG statement issued after the 12 February teleconference stressed the importance of adherence by member countries to the Commonwealth’s fundamental political values, including constitutional democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights; and in particular, the principle of separation of powers.

The CMAG ministerial mission will be supported by a Commonwealth Secretariat team led by Amitav Banerji, Director of Political Affairs.

CMAG will convene again in extraordinary session next week, to receive and consider the findings of the ministerial mission.

Note to Editors:

 CMAG comprises foreign ministers from nine Commonwealth countries and is tasked with dealing with serious or persistent violations of Commonwealth values and principles. The members are Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Jamaica, Maldives, Sierra Leone, United Republic of Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago and Vanuatu.

 The Group was given an enhanced mandate at the last Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia, in October 2011.

 For media enquiries, please contact Victoria Holdsworth (in Malé) on +44 789 459 3520 or on v.holdsworth@commonwealth.int. In London, please contact Manoah Esipisu on +44 789 446 2021 or m.esipisu@commonwealth.int

Cathy Price 
Administrative Assistant
Communications & Public Affairs Division

Commonwealth Secretariat • Marlborough House • Pall Mall • London SW1Y 5HX • United Kingdom
Tel:  +44 (0) 20 7747 6386    • Fax: Direct  +44 (0) 20 7004 3771  General: +44 (0) 20 7839 9081 • www.thecommonwealth.org

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A source in the finance ministry tells our news desk that 4 billion shillings have been put aside to do the work.

The former workers of the NRM secretariat have been complaining that the government had failed to p[ay their terminal benefits and arrears amounting to Five billion shillings.

A highly placed source in the finance ministry has told this journalist that the staff of the defunct NRM secretariat spread throughout the country is to receive the benefits in December this year.

Some of the former staff members to be paid according on the list are Kirunda Kivejinja, Zam Nalugya, Ofwono Opondo, Ikuya Magode, and Henry Matsiko among others.

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She says that she has collected enough evidence to prove that the polls were rigged in favour of the DP candidate, an allegation Nabukenya denies.

She has informed our informers that the initial counting of the ballots after the by elections indicated that she was in the lead but she got shocked when the electoral commission announced Nabukenya as the winner.

Ms Nalwanga thanked all her voters and promised that she will soon tell them officially about her second step. She says that she consulted the NRM secretariat for legal advice before she finally came out with the decision to challenge Nabukenya’s elections in court.

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