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EDUCATION-SOUTH AFRICA: Making the Blackboard Jungle Less So By Stephanie Nieuwoudt CAPE TOWN - Violence in South African schools has claimed the lives of a number of children in recent years, while many more have been hospitalised with injuries. MORE >>
Q&A: "A World 'Unfit' for 2.2 Billion Children" By Interview with Agneta Ucko, director of Arigatou International UNITED NATIONS - As the United Nations plans to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its landmark Convention on the Rights of the Child next year, the world's 2.2 billion children continue to suffer the consequences of growing poverty, rising illiteracy, increasing sexual abuse and widespread military conscription in conflicts worldwide. MORE >>
KENYA: Free Secondary Schooling Policy Faces Testing Times By Kwamboka Oyaro NAIROBI - When Kenya's government introduced free primary schooling in 2003, vast numbers of additional pupils were brought into the education system overnight, putting it on a steep learning curve. MORE >>
KENYA: Education Amidst Displacement By Kwamboka Oyaro KITALE and ELDORET, Kenya - With the new academic year in Kenya underway, teacher Moses Simiyu Kalenda is once again instructing children -- just not in the place where he expected to be doing so. MORE >>
EDUCATION-SOUTH AFRICA: ‘We Need All Hands on Deck to Solve The Crisis’ By Interview with Graeme Bloch of the Development Bank of South Africa CAPE TOWN - Teachers who are not trained properly, teacher strikes and HIV/AIDS are taking a huge toll on the educational system in South Africa. MORE >>
SUDAN: Some Southerners Have Hope For Unity By 2011 By Yazeed Kamaldien KHARTOUM - Citizens from Sudan’s southern region, long caught in a power struggle with their country’s northern-controlled government, are looking with a mixture of hope and uncertainty to 2011 when they will vote in a referendum on whether or not the south will remain part of Sudan. MORE >>
EDUCATION-ZIMBABWE: Getting Harder To Keep Children In School By Tonderai Kwidini HARARE - Alois Mufundisi, a media professional, earns 200 million Zimbabwean dollars, about 50 U.S. dollars on the thriving parallel market. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-NIGERIA: As E-Waste Dump, Lagos Imperils People By Sam Olukoya LAGOS - Nigeria’s commercial capital is arguably one of the largest dumps for obsolete electronic items otherwise called e-wastes. MORE >>
Q&A: ‘We Want to Prepare Voters For the Election and the Post-Election Scenario’ By Interview with Lovemore Madhuku, chairman of the NCA HARARE - "If you run an inherently unfair election it will lead to political unrest in a post- election scenario," Lovemore Madhuku, chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) told IPS. MORE >>
RIGHTS-RWANDA: Children of the Genocide Struggle to Cope By Noel E. King KIGALI - What Gilbert Nshimyumukiza remembers most about the Rwandan genocide is that it started to rain as he and his brothers tried to carry his mortally wounded father back into their house. MORE >>
EDUCATION-SWAZILAND: Urban Youth Slipping Through The Cracks By James Hall MBABANE - As the new school year begins here many destitute or orphaned children are in need of assistance to pay for their educations. An unknown number of urban youngsters, however, are slipping through the social welfare net. MORE >>
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Education Africa
Association for the Development of Education in Africa
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