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Seychelles
Science - Education
Funding streams in for Seychelles University

afrol News, 17 June - The 'University of Seychelles Foundation', which was established one year ago to provide the archipelago with its first university, is successfully starting to gather first donations to advance its work.

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Côte d'Ivoire
Politics | Science - Education | Human rights
Ivorian govt "behind student violence"

afrol News, 22 May - Côte d'Ivoire authorities are accused of protecting pro-government student groups responsible for numerous acts of violent and criminal behaviour, according to human rights groups. The groups, often described as "the mafia", is said to operate under full impunity.

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Nigeria
Labour | Economy - Development | Politics | Society | Health | Science - Education | Human rights
No-work-no-pay rule damned

afrol News, 7 March - Nigerian government has been damned for issuing a directive to all heads of universities that it would apply no-work-no-pay rule. In this piece, an education rights campaigner of Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, Kola Ibrahim, wondered why the rule should be applied to all lecturers who participated in the last warning strike, describing the rule as "condemnable" and "provocative."

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Sudan
Politics | Economy - Development | Science - Education | Gender - Women
Sudan benefits gender education

afrol News, 25 October - A five-year Gender Equity through Education Programme has been launched in the Southern Sudanese capital of Juba. Launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in cooperation with the South Sudan government, a total of US $6.5 million has been earmarked for the programme.

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Congo Brazzaville
Science - Education | Health | Labour
Critical lack of health workers in Brazzaville

afrol News / IRIN, 17 July - Congo Brazzaville's Minister of Health, Social Affairs and Family, Emilienne Raoul, has raised concerns that a critical lack of qualified staff in the public health sector will have repercussions for the population's health. She warns of a regional "human resources crisis."

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