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LESOTHO: AIDS Orphans get Helping Hand By Letuka Mahe MASERU - Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead. MORE >>
RIGHTS-MALAWI: Blame Game While Children Suffer By Charles Mpaka LIMBE, Malawi - Every morning 12-year-old Thomson Genti and his seven-year-old brother, Chifundo, emerge dirty and wretched from the squalor of their hideout behind the crowded shops in the commercial town of Limbe. It is the start of a day of begging, beatings from the older street boys and insults from passers-by. MORE >>
UGANDA: Lifting Silence on Menstruation to Keep Girls in School By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - More than half of Ugandan girls who enrol in grade one drop out before sitting for their primary school-leaving examinations. MORE >>
AFRICA: Uneven Progress on Development Goals Evelyn Kiapi interviews SYLVIA MWICHULI, deputy director of the U.N. Millennium Campaign Africa KAMPALA - The Millennium Goals cannot be achieved at the United Nations. The U.N. can create a platform for governments to make commitments but cannot force compliance by member states. MORE >>
EDUCATION-ZIMBABWE: Students Quit Classes - and Country - As Crisis Deepens By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO - Schooling is increasingly becoming a privilege of the rich, , Zimbabwean parents and teachers' unions complain. MORE >>
SENEGAL: Scrambling to Keep Up With Education For All By Souleymane Faye DIOHINE, Senegal - In Diohine, a village of some 3,000 inhabitants in the Fatick region of central Senegal, real progress has been made towards educating all children, in spite of a lack of infrastructure. MORE >>
ZAMBIA: 'Clear Lack of Commitment to HIV' Kristin Palitza interviews HENRY MALUMA, Oxfam Zambia essential services coordinator CAPE TOWN - A United Nations mid-point review of Zambia's efforts towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), released in September, has revealed that HIV/AIDS might prevent the southern African country from meeting the targets. MORE >>
MALAWI: Pre-school Education A Luxury By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - Less than a third of Malawi's children attend pre-school; the others will lag behind their peers for their entire school careers. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: Board Gives School System Failing Marks By Vusumuzi Sifile HARARE - Primary and secondary school education in Zimbabwe has "fallen woefully behind" other southern African countries due to shortages of textbooks and other materials as well as deteriorating working conditions and resultant low morale for teachers. MORE >>
MADAGASCAR: Poverty Forces 2 Million Children into Hard Labour By Fanja Saholiarisoa ANTANANARIVO - Poverty has increased dramatically in Madagascar since January, when a national protest movement to end the regime of former president Marc Ravalomanana plunged the country into a socio-economic crisis. Since then, the number of child labourers has risen by a whopping 25 percent. MORE >>
SWAZILAND: Educating Angels By Mantoe Phakathi BULEMBU, Swaziland - It is not a typical classroom setup where pupils sit in rows facing the front with a teacher lecturing before them. MORE >>
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