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SOMALIA: Fighting for an Education By Abdurrahman Warsameh MOGADISHU - "I like to study, even though there is fighting everywhere in Mogadishu," says Bashir Gedi, a 15-year-old student in the Somalian capital. "Education is more important for me because if I can get an education, then I can help rebuild my country." MORE >>
ECONOMY-AFRICA: HIV/AIDS Reduces Children’s Education Chances By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - Children who live in communities with an HIV prevalence rate of 10 percent or more have half a year of schooling less than children in other communities. MORE >>
EDUCATION-KENYA: Students Pour In, Teachers Drain Away By Kwamboka Oyaro NAIROBI - Six hundred teachers have left classrooms in Kenyan schools for better paying jobs elsewhere in just the past six months, according to the Head Teachers Association and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT). That is about three teachers leaving the service every day. MORE >>
KENYA: Teenage Mothers Denied Education By Kwamboka Oyaro NAIROBI - At 17, Julia Metito* (*not her real name) should be in her final year in secondary school in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, but three years ago she had to leave school to give birth and then nurse a child. Today, she finds herself in Class Seven with 13-year-olds. 13,000 girls leave school every year in Kenya due to pregnancy, according to research released at the beginning of May by the Centre for the Study of Adolescence, a non-governmental organisation that works on reproductive health, gender and social policy for teenagers. MORE >>
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 >>
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