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Q&A Ghana's Youth Are "The Future of the Nation" Aline Jenckel interviews SAMUEL KISSI, executive coordinator of Curious Minds, a youth advocacy organisation in Ghana UNITED NATIONS - With a whopping 40 percent of Ghana's population under the age of 24, the government's ability to foster their development and include them in the country's development are critical to the country's future. MORE >>
Social Media Activism Takes Root in Malawi By Katie Lin BLANTRYE, Malawi - As Malawians celebrate Joyce Banda’s appointment as president on sites, like Facebook and Twitter, the increased use of social media in Malawi comes full circle as her new government takes office. MORE >>
OP-ED Kenyan Youth Demanding Change By Kennedy Kachwanya* NAIROBI - Whenever I think of the youth issues, I remember: "Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare." MORE >>
The Ticket to an Education in Côte d'Ivoire By Fulgence Zamblé ABIDJAN - The births of tens of thousands of children during Côte d'Ivoire's eight-year rebellion were not formally recorded. Providing these children with birth certificates is one of the mundane yet vital challenges facing the authorities as they work to re-establish the country's public administration. MORE >>
Cameroon’s Baka Pygmies Seek an Identity and Education By Ngala Killian Chimtom UPPER NYONG DIVISION, Cameroon - Kokpa Pascale Moangue, a Baka Pygmy in southeastern Cameroon, has given his children the one thing he always longed for, but his parents could not give him – an education. And he was able to achieve it by obtaining a simple piece of paper: a birth registration certificate. MORE >>
Extra Year to Boost School Performance in Sierra Leone By Damon van der Linde and Mustapha Dumbuya FREETOWN - Sierra Leone is instituting major reforms to its education system after the country reported some of the poorest academic results in West Africa. It will start with adding an extra year to the end of secondary school beginning in 2013, and nearly doubling daily classroom hours. MORE >>
Living on a Meal a Day in Swaziland By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - Margaret Gamedze earns a living doing laundry for people in her community in Msunduza Township, which lies about a kilometre outside Swaziland’s capital city of Mbabane. But since the country’s fiscal crisis began, she no longer earns enough to pay the rent for her one-roomed mud shack, which she shares with her five children. MORE >>
Lessons in Democracy on South Sudan’s Airwaves By Charlton Doki* JUBA - It is late afternoon and a group of men and women begin to converge under the shade of a huge mango tree in Yambio town, the capital of South Sudan’s western Equatoria state. The group is not gathering for an ethnic, political or religious meeting. They are here to listen to the radio. MORE >>
The Sound of Peace in Kenya’s Kibera Slum By Isaiah Esipisu* NAIROBI - In a Kibera-bound mini-bus taxi, the driver changes the station just as he turns onto Ngong Road, kilometres away from the Kenyan slum. He tunes into Pamoja Radio 99.9 FM, a local community radio station that broadcasts only in Kibera. MORE >>
Radio Static for Ghana’s Community Stations By Sandra Ferrari* ACCRA - There is a tension resonating through Ghana’s airwaves, an electric current fueled by rivaling interests between community radio advocates and Ghana’s National Communications Authority. MORE >>
SOMALIA Rebuilding Among the Rubble By Abdurrahman Warsameh MOGADISHU - With vehicles and donkey carts packed with their belongings, Somalis are returning, four years after they fled, to their partially standing, bullet-scarred and mortar-shelled neighbourhoods in former Al-Shabaab controlled areas of Mogadishu. MORE >>
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