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Radio Static for Ghana’s Community Stations By Sandra Ferrari* ACCRA - There is a tension resonating through Ghana’s airwaves, an electric current fueled by rivaling interests between community radio advocates and Ghana’s National Communications Authority. MORE >>
SOMALIA Rebuilding Among the Rubble By Abdurrahman Warsameh MOGADISHU - With vehicles and donkey carts packed with their belongings, Somalis are returning, four years after they fled, to their partially standing, bullet-scarred and mortar-shelled neighbourhoods in former Al-Shabaab controlled areas of Mogadishu. MORE >>
SOMALIA Taking Schools Back From Militants By Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar MOGADISHU - Schools are beginning to re-open slowly in areas of capital Mogadishu that were until recently controlled by the militant Islamic group al-Shabaab. But an estimated 80 percent of students have not yet returned. MORE >>
MALAWI Women’s Education the Path to the Presidency By Travis Lupick and Emma Mwasinga BLANTYRE - On an elegant veranda adorned with a red carpet, Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda recalls how her childhood friend Chrissie Mtokoma was always top of their class and how she struggled to beat her. But now decades later Banda is a likely contender for the country’s presidency in 2014, while Mtokoma lives in poverty. MORE >>
At the Nexus of Agrofuels, Land Grabs and Hunger – Part 1 By Kanya D'Almeida WASHINGTON - While the United Nations climate talks in Durban enter their ninth day of political feet-dragging, researchers and peasants around the world are busy connecting the dots between so- called "green climate solutions", industrialised agriculture and chronic hunger. MORE >>
AFRICA Failure to Adopt Technology in Libraries Results in Fewer Users By Andrew Green KAMPALA - Simret Mebrahtu has been an infrequent visitor to the National Library of Uganda in the centre of Kampala for nearly two years. A student, she stops by every couple of weeks to use the cheap internet connection if one of the few computers is available. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE Forcing Parents to Top Up Teachers' Salaries Cannot Continue By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO - As concerns deepen about the quality of education in Zimbabwe, parents can expect an indefinite extension of subsidising teacher salaries as the cash- strapped government struggles to meet the bloated civil service wage bill. MORE >>
UNESCO Study Reveals Widening Secondary Education Gap By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - Arguing that an educated population is a country's greatest wealth, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says there is no escape from poverty without a vast expansion of secondary education worldwide. MORE >>
Non-Traditional Teaching Promoted for Girls By A.D.McKenzie PARIS - Making some simple, basic changes in education policy can result in many more girls attending school, experts said at a meeting here this week on Gender Equality in Education. MORE >>
Adding Up the Cost of Education in Sierra Leone By Meena Bhandari FREETOWN - A formal strike of teachers has been averted and pupils in Sierra Leone returned to school on Tuesday, almost a week after the term was meant to officially start. MORE >>
SWAZILAND No Fees No School By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - The future education of Swazi children remains uncertain, as public schools across the country have not reopened for the new term because government has not been able to pay for their upkeep. MORE >>
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AED - Academy for Educational Development
Education Africa
Association for the Development of Education in Africa
Portal Education Africa
