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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
Congolese children trade life as miners for a chance at school
Kipushi – Lined up under a hot sun in Kipushi, a mining city in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo,... Read more
27 Aug, 2021
SA schools to remain open despite increasing Covid-19 cases
Schools around the country will remain open despite rising Covid-19 cases, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has said. Motshekga... Read more
20 Jun, 2021
