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Kenya
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afrol News, 21 October - Gladys Lokilamak is always cheery in the afternoons. This is the time that she and her colleagues at the remote Asilong Primary School in north-western Kenya normally find fun in education - through laptops.

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Benin
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Benin soon to offer universal education

afrol News, 29 September - Beninese authorities report they are on track to ensure primary education for all by 2015, provided current efforts can be maintained. Already last year, school enrolment reached 109 percent(!).

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Africa
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afrol News, 10 June - In an effort to ensure that African youth learn about their common heritage, the UN, historians, education specialists and governments are now developing a history syllabus for schools across the continent.

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Lesotho
Society | Science - Education
Lesotho enacts free compulsory education

afrol News, 14 May - The government of Lesotho has enacted the Education Act 2010, legalising the right to free and compulsory education. The act is hailed as "a historic landmark for the children of Lesotho" and will boost school enrolment.

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Central African Republic
Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Human rights | Science - Education
UNICEF brings books to CAR

afrol News, 17 March - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is working to ensure that some 145,000 children affected by conflict in the Central African Republic have literature, mathematics and science books.

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» 11.02.2010 - Education still under attack - Unesco
» 20.01.2010 - Poor nations’ children’s education at stake
» 16.12.2009 - Kibaki orders investigation into missing school funds
» 24.11.2009 - School meals boost education, new report
» 16.09.2009 - Schools for Africa partnership raise $71 million
» 15.09.2009 - $70 million to revive Zimbabwe’s education
» 27.08.2009 - New teacher training college for Malawi
» 25.08.2009 - UNICEF grants DR Congo $500.000
» 04.08.2009 - AU-UN mission provides funds to Dafur
» 18.05.2009 - Australia to donate 4250 Lapdesks to a Maputo school
» 29.04.2009 - World Bank doubles education financing
» 21.04.2009 - Countries set to meet the 2015 education for all target
» 14.04.2009 - Madagascar education sector in danger
» 25.02.2009 - Zim teachers end year long strike
» 13.02.2009 - Teachers outraged by caning of colleagues
» 16.10.2008 - Zimbabwe’s education in much deeper crisis
» 25.09.2008 - WFP welcomes private sector partnership to feed world's poor children
» 08.09.2008 - Morocco seals $23.8 million for education
» 29.07.2008 - Namibia secures record grant
» 05.02.2008 - Uganda combats demons
» 25.10.2007 - Sudan benefits gender education
» 24.08.2007 - Illegal Liberians’ deportation contested
» 28.03.2007 - AIDS killed 193 Tanzanian teachers
» 26.02.2007 - South Africa's schools start bridging apartheid gap
» 23.11.2006 - Five million South African kids to get free education
» 01.06.2006 - Tanzanian church still opposes condoms, sex education
» 06.04.2005 - Puntland (Somalia) to introduce free primary schools
» 04.04.2005 - Most South African educators dissatisfied with job
» 08.02.2005 - Basic education soon universal in Morocco
» 03.02.2005 - Rwanda's secondary schools to be connected by 2017
» 13.08.2004 - Madagascar educates 1 million school drop-outs
» 03.06.2004 - Education on South Africa's farms "neglected"
» 05.03.2004 - Environment taught in South Africa's public schools
» 02.03.2004 - UN to assist in Equatoguinean universal primary education
» 28.01.2004 - Swazi children now let to school after royal weeding
» 23.01.2004 - Some 80% of Somalis now illiterate
» 03.12.2003 - Education projects in Niger financed
» 06.11.2003 - Little progress for girls' school attendance
» 03.07.2003 - Education project in Guinea-Bissau funded
» 23.06.2003 - More African girls to go to school
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