Burkina Faso Jihadist raids leave 500 000 Burkina Faso children without schools Ouagadougou – More than half a million children in Burkina Faso are unable to go to school because of attacks... Read more 6 Jan, 2022
Countries New ‘sex for good marks’ allegations cause uproar in Morocco Rabat – Allegations of a teacher trading good grades for sexual favours at a Moroccan institution have prompted calls for... Read more 1 Jan, 2022
World Russian teenager ‘blows himself up’ at Orthodox school, interior ministry says Moscow – An 18-year-old graduate of an Orthodox school “blew himself up” at a convent outside Moscow, injuring himself and... Read more 13 Dec, 2021
Arts and Leisure College that conferred MamKhize with honorary doctorate ‘is not registered’ Cape Town – Good Shepherd College of Religion and Training, a Christian institution that recently awarded South African businesswoman... Read more 4 Dec, 2021
News Tanzania lifts ban on teen mothers attending schools Dar es Salaam – Tanzania said on Wednesday it would allow pregnant students and teenaged mothers to continue with... Read more 25 Nov, 2021
Countries South Sudanese graduates ‘stranded’ in Zimbabwe – report Cape Town – At least 14 South Sudanese nationals, who were students at the National University of Science and... Read more 22 Nov, 2021
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