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SOUTH AFRICA Teachers' Voices Heard in Public Sector Strike By Marshall Patsanza JOHANNESBURG - South African teachers - along with other public service employees - have embarked on an indefinite strike over wages. The unions are demanding an 8.6 percent wage increase. Government says it cannot afford to offer 1.3 million striking public servants any more than seven percent. MORE >>
HEALTH-KENYA Attempts to Modernise Traditional Circumcision Rites By Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI - During every year that ends in an even number, the month of August is a special occasion for young men in Kenya’s Western Province. During this month thousands of boys aged between 10 and 18 undergo male circumcision – something that is seen as an important rite of passage into manhood among their communities. But it is also a time were nearly half the young men circumcised will have to fight for their lives. MORE >>
Burkinabé Women's Economic Empowerment Key to Girls' Education By Brahima Ouédraogo OUAGADOUGOU - An initiative to keep girls in school by supporting income-generating activities for their mothers is bearing fruit in Burkina Faso, where poverty and cultural values still deprive many girls of an education. MORE >>
DR CONGO Sticks And Straw Out of Our Schools By Badylon K. Bakiman KIKWIT, DR Congo - Led by the local church, residents of Gungu administrative zone, in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have used their own resources to transform the conditions in which their children study. MORE >>
Developing More Top African Women Research Scientists By Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI - In a tiny village near Kisumu city in Kenya, scientific researcher Mary Anyango Oyunga spends most of her time educating women about something they have always done – grow sweet potatoes. MORE >>
Football Leaves Legacy of Hope in Namibia By Patience Nyangove WINDHOEK - Throughout the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, organisers have insisted that the legacy of the event goes far beyond the sporting spectacle. In the dusty streets of a Windhoek township, Deon Namiseb believes this is true. MORE >>
UGANDA Too Young to Know, Yet Too Young to Die By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi KAMPALA - Thirteen-year-old Jacinta Okello and her fellow primary school classmates call it "doing bad manners". But when you ask her what she knows about sex, she breaks into a shy smile, looks to her feet and giggles. MORE >>
AFRICA Renewing the Promise of Education for All By Laure Pichegru JOHANNESBURG - The World Cup is wreaking havoc with a key millennium development goal in South Africa: as the football tournament hit its stride, not a single child across the nation attended school. MORE >>
Universal Education an Empty Promise for Liberia's Girls By Bonnie Allen MONROVIA - In a small office tucked behind the stairwell in Liberia’s Ministry of Education, the once-proud staff of the Girls’ Education Unit appear defeated. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA Children Help to Assess Water Health By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN - Miss, Miss, there are tiny creatures here in the water!" a Grade 7 pupil shouts excitedly, trying to draw attention to his water sample. At first, the liquid looks clear, but upon closer examination, one can make out a tiny aquatic invertebrate. MORE >>
UGANDA Information Technology Helps Farmers By Joshua Kyalimpa WAINHA, Uganda - Mayuge district has 31,000 farming families served by just nine agricultural extension workers. In Wainha village, an internet centre run by the Busoga Rural Open Source and Development Initiative is more than filling the gap in assisting farmers. MORE >>
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AED - Academy for Educational Development
Education Africa
Association for the Development of Education in Africa
Portal Education Africa
