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Lesotho
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Lesotho student clashes being investigated

afrol News, 3 November - The October student riots, in which one student died and 20 persons were injured, are now to be investigated by a commission of inquiry. The Maseru National University of Lesotho meanwhile has been reopened.

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Seychelles
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University of Seychelles takes off

afrol News, 18 September - The University of Seychelles was launched yesterday in the country and have already registered fifty-five Seychellois students who will be starting classes soon.

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Botswana
Science - Education
Botswana begins building new science university

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 22 May - Building has started on Botswana's long-delayed specialist science and technology university. It is hoped the university will stop the "brain drain" of students going to other countries to study and never to return, but rather recruit skilled labour from other African countries.

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Africa | World
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World Bank doubles education financing

afrol News, 29 April - The World Bank has today announced it was doubling its education financing this year in low- and middle-income countries to $4.09 billion to help poor countries battle threats to their education systems during the global economic crisis.

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Mauritius
Technology | Science - Education | Economy - Development
Mauritius seeks stronger ICT sector

afrol News, 17 April - The government of Mauritius has announced it will develop a new national plan to promote the information and communication technology (ITC) sector, aiming at boosting the number of national companies involved in the sector and creating a new export industry.

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» 05.12.2008 - Africa, Europe deepen higher education links
» 02.12.2008 - Agadir student killings trigger protests
» 15.10.2008 - Rwanda to host Africa regional higher education summit
» 06.10.2008 - Ghanaian wins first African scholars award
» 23.09.2008 - New training levy introduced in Botswana
» 17.06.2008 - Funding streams in for Seychelles University
» 22.05.2008 - Ivorian govt "behind student violence"
» 07.03.2008 - No-work-no-pay rule damned
» 25.10.2007 - Sudan benefits gender education
» 17.07.2007 - Critical lack of health workers in Brazzaville
» 21.12.2006 - University lecturers in Uganda call off strike
» 20.12.2006 - 400 new doctors to lose jobs in Kenya
» 16.11.2006 - Moroccan professors strike over work conditions
» 04.05.2006 - Women preachers appointed in Morocco
» 27.04.2006 - Mauritius urges laureates to return home
» 12.09.2005 - Ghana Minister laments "increased brain drain"
» 25.04.2005 - Cameroon students on hunger strike
» 11.03.2005 - Burkina Faso graduates first wetland scientists
» 26.01.2005 - Students abduct Guinea-Bissau Ambassador in Russia
» 21.01.2005 - New journalism school in Mozambique successful
» 20.08.2004 - Somaliland now counts on four universities
» 12.07.2004 - Nigeria may join Global University System
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» 15.03.2004 - First medical school in Eritrea opens
» 13.02.2004 - Students arrested in Guinean university strike
» 27.01.2004 - Togo's new university opens in borrowed buildings
» 11.11.2003 - Ethiopia wants skilled Diaspora to return
» 04.06.2003 - Education and infrastructure credits for Namibia
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