Politics

Broken dreams: Burkina’s orphans schooled in Castro’s Cuba

Ouagadougou – Thirty-five years ago, Burkina Faso’s radical leader Thomas Sankara sent 600 youngsters, most of them orphans, to train... Read more

14 Nov, 2021

News

‘I saved him’: Niger teacher relives school fire tragedy

Maradi – Aisha Ibrahim bursts into tears as she recounts how a fire ripped through the southern Niger school... Read more

10 Nov, 2021

News

At least 26 children aged between 5 and 6 die in Niger school fire

Niamey – At least 26 children aged between five and six burnt to death on Monday when their straw... Read more

9 Nov, 2021

Countries

Abducted university workers freed in Nigeria, police say

Abuja – Nigerian security forces on Friday rescued six people who had been seized at a university near the capital’s... Read more

6 Nov, 2021

Countries

Uganda to reopen schools in January, after almost two years

Kampala – Ugandan schools, closed since March last year owing to the pandemic, will reopen in January regardless of currently... Read more

29 Oct, 2021

News

Jihadist threat closes schools in Burkina Faso province

Ouagadougou – The threat posed by jihadist groups has forced the mass closure of schools in Burkina Faso’s eastern province... Read more

24 Oct, 2021

News

‘We want to study,’ DRC pupils say as they protest for schools to reopen amid teachers’ strike

Kinshasa – Hundreds of secondary school pupils demonstrated outside the Democratic Republic of Congo’s parliament on Thursday, calling for lessons... Read more

22 Oct, 2021

Coronavirus

Africa’s top university to bar unvaccinated from campus

Johannesburg – The University of Cape Town will require all staff and students to be vaccinated against Covid-19 from January,... Read more

21 Oct, 2021

Politics

Eswatini shuts schools ‘indefinitely’ amid new wave of protests

Mbabane – Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, said on Saturday it had shut its schools “indefinitely with immediate effect” as... Read more

16 Oct, 2021

World

Some girls return to school as Taliban seeks to manage image

Kabul – Girls have returned to some secondary schools in a northern province of Afghanistan, Taliban officials and teachers said... Read more

5 Oct, 2021