Full Coverage: East Africa
June 2003
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30.06.2003
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, which have different education systems, aim to develop a common system which will spur industrial development. The three will hold a national conference later this year to discuss the issue.
Story linkFrom: allAfrica.com Related topics/regions: [Kenya] [Uganda] [Tanzania] [Africa] [Education] Image: Selling tomatoes © Rodney Rascona/Food for the Hungry / allAfrica.com
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28.06.2003
Banca Mondiale e FMI minacciano di togliere il sostegno allo Zambia se il Governo non privatizzerà tre enti di importanza strategica. Intanto, la società civile zambiana si oppone alla bozza di riforma agraria del Governo che propone di assegnare tutta la terra al Presidente della Repubblica, mentre il Paese resiste alle pressioni internazionali per l'introduzione di ogm.
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Zambia] [Economy] [Debt] [Finance] [United Nations] [Civil society] [Food] [Agriculture] |
27.06.2003
The Ugandan government proposes to retire teachers if they report sick for more than six months. The decision was taken after schools complained that education was suffering because teachers were on long leave and the schools could not employ other teachers.
Story linkFrom: allAfrica.com Related topics/regions: [Uganda] [Africa] [Education] |
27.06.2003
Ninth graders in a Madagascar school are not lectured on how institutions are run in civic education classes. The students are instead divided in groups where they discuss problems facing their society and solutions for these. Read more on the Madagascar Media and Message project.
Story linkFrom: Pact, Inc Related topics/regions: [Madagascar] [Africa] [Education] |
26.06.2003
Avustus- ja kampanjajärjestö Oxfamin käynnistämään Make Trade Fair -vetoomuskampanjaan reilumman kauppajärjestelmän puolesta on liittynyt eri puolilla maailmaa jo yli miljoona ihmistä. Sambiassa kampanja on otettu hyvin vastaan, vaikka maassa on niukasti tietoa maailmankaupan ongelmista.
Story linkFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related topics/regions: [Zambia] |
25.06.2003
The Somali peace talks, currently underway in Kenya, are in danger of collapse if a compromise solution is not found to the selection and number of future parliamentarians, a faction leader warned.
Story linkFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Somalia] [Politics] [War and peace] [Conflict resolution] |
25.06.2003
Read the remarkable story about a Ugandan woman, Blandina Bumbo, who used the profits from a gifted cow to provide education to destitute children and orphans in her village. Her school provides education to nearly 30 children.
Story linkFrom: Heifer International Related topics/regions: [Uganda] [Africa] [Education] |
25.06.2003
Despite efforts at promotion, Internet usage by refugees remains woefully low. The recent World Refugee Week attempted to address this problem by highlighting barriers, which include inadequate infrastructure and high costs.
Story linkFrom: Digital Divide Network Related topics/regions: [Palestine] [United Kingdom] [Tanzania] [Europe] [Middle East] [ICT] |
24.06.2003
Suomalainen kansalaisjärjestö World Comics ja Legal and Human Rights Centren Tansaniasta ovat järjestäneet huhtikuussa sarjakuvatyöpajan. Työpaja pureutui korruption eri muotojen esittämiseen kuvakertomuksina.
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24.06.2003
Ruth, a young Zambian girl, becomes the first girl in her family to go to secondary school. Read her story of how she valued education, fought poverty and persuaded her reluctant parents to send her to secondary school.
Story linkFrom: CamFed Related topics/regions: [Zambia] [Africa] [Education] Image: No future? Child in Misisi shanty compound, Zambia © Mark Lynas
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24.06.2003
Ethiopia plans to harness information and communication technologies (ICT) for development projects. This initiative involves connecting schools through the Internet, providing information services, strengthening e-commerce and creating a digital economy network.
Story linkFrom: allAfrica.com Related topics/regions: [Ethiopia] [ICT] |
23.06.2003
A woman in Burundi goes to great lengths to save children from the ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis. Her organisation, Shalom House, cares for abandoned children and orphans in old school buildings even as it sends out a message of peace.
Story linkFrom: ActionAid UK Related topics/regions: [Burundi] [Africa] [Education] |
21.06.2003
Sono molti gli immigrati che giungono in Kenya alla ricerca di lavoro e di migliori opportunità di vita. Si fa pressante, quindi, l'esigenza di colmare il vuoto normativo ad oggi esistente al fine di garantire a queste persone un'adeguata protezione contro le violenze, le discriminazioni e le forme di razzismo e xenofobia di cui sono vittime.
Story linkCi si auspica pertanto che la Commissione per la Revisione della Costituzione (Constitution of Kenya Review Commission-CKRC), che sta lavorando per dare una nuova legge costituzionale al Kenya, affronti il problema garantendo la tutela dei diritti degli immigrati e dei non-cittadini. From: Saint Martin Related topics/regions: [Kenya] [Migration] [Human rights] |
20.06.2003
Zambia's health system is seriously overstretched by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Unfortunately AIDS is not the only crisis in the health sector, Malaria is still the largest killer in Zambia. The fight against Malaria has been overshadowed by the equally important HIV/AIDS epidemic
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Southern Africa] [Zambia] [Health] [Disease] [Malaria] |
20.06.2003
The international community provides protection and assistance to 350, 000 Burundian refugees in 10 camps in western Tanzania. With 10,000 Burundian refugees entering adulthood in the camps each year, what form of education would be relevant and stimulating for them?
Story linkFrom: id21 Related topics/regions: [Burundi] [Tanzania] [Education] |
19.06.2003
Zambia's economy until 1991 was largely controlled by the Government. After the change of Government in 1991 many parastatal companies were privatised or liquidated in line with IMF and World Bank conditionalities for the country to receive further aid and rescheduling of its huge US$ 6 billion debt. The effects of privatisation, however, have been harsh.
Story linkFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related topics/regions: [Zambia] [Southern Africa] [Development] [Economy] [Debt] |
19.06.2003
Erika Makalli, 12, lives in a small village in Tanzania. Thanks to the tapstand project, undertaken with the help of Water Aid, she now has clean, safe water close to her home and she goes to school. Children in Africa spend hours fetching water leaving them with no time to attend school.
Story linkFrom: WaterAid Related topics/regions: [Tanzania] [Education] Image: Selling tomatoes © Rodney Rascona/Food for the Hungry / allAfrica.com
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18.06.2003
Zambia's Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources Marina Nsingo has lamented that despite the efforts and resources poured into the project to rid the Kafue river of the menacing water hyacinth, there are no tangible results to show.
Story linkFrom: allAfrica.com Related topics/regions: [Zambia] [Southern Africa] [Water/sanitation] [Environment] [Rivers] |
18.06.2003
Somalia's first medical college in 12 years officially opened in the capital, Mogadishu, on 15 June. The Benadir University Medical College, which is currently training 22 medical students (11 of them women), is to be funded by donations and an annual fee of US $1,500 per student.
Story linkFrom: allAfrica.com Related topics/regions: [Somalia] [Education] Image: Children in a Morocco school
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16.06.2003
Education is a key in preventing girls from falling victim to child trafficking, says the head of the UN Children's Fund in Ethiopia. He says many children drop out of school and are forced into dangerous work or prostitution simply because they have no alternatives.
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Ethiopia] [Education] |
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