Burkina Faso
Democracy - Dictatorship | Higher Education | Policy | War & Peace
Protest wave reaches Burkina Faso
afrol News, 15 March - Anti-government protests are gaining space in Burkina Faso, one of West Africa's least democratic countries. Massive student protests have already led to the closure of all universities.
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Algeria
Actionism | Democracy - Dictatorship | Higher Education | Policy
Students keep Algeria protests warm
afrol News, 17 February - As weekly anti-government protests are planned in Algeria each Saturday, students around the country keep the movement warm during weekdays, organising strikes, sit-ins and protests.
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Algeria
Democracy - Dictatorship | Policy | War & Peace
Large student protests in Algeria
afrol News, 8 February - University students in Algeria have started an "indefinite strike", denouncing the poor quality of teaching. Meanwhile, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is trying to stop the large protest marches announced for Saturday.
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Senegal
Policy | Primary Education
Slow progress for literacy in Senegal
afrol News, 14 January - Still, more than half of Senegalese adults are illiterate, new data show. Despite massive investments in literacy programmes since 1990, progress is only slow. Limited funding and quick population growth makes the task difficult.
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Congo Kinshasa | Rwanda
Natural sciences | Nature | Wildlife
Mountain gorilla population recovering
afrol News, 8 December - A new mountain gorilla census in Rwanda and Congo Kinshasa (DRC) shows a 26 percent increase in population of this endangered species during seven years. Mountain gorillas are among the region's main tourist attractions.
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Africa
Cooperation | Development | Policy | Social sciences
Africa receives least health aid
afrol News, 30 November - New research reveals that the part of development aid directed towards health issues has increased strongly during the last two decades. But Africa receives far less health aid than less challenged developing countries, compared to needs.
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Seychelles
Development | Higher Education | People
Seychelles gets its 1st university
afrol News, 30 November - Seychelles, a nation of only 85,000 inhabitants, yesterday inaugurated its first university. The small nation hopes to reverse the "brain drain" resulting from students having to travel abroad.
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Nigeria
Conservation | Management | Natural sciences | Science
"Conserving Nigeria's forests pays off"
afrol News, 11 November - Preserving Nigeria's surviving tropical forests and planting new trees to replace those lost to deforestation "offers great benefits," according to researchers, both to the climate and to agriculture.
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Cameroon
Conservation | Natural sciences | Wildlife
Cameroon "new gorillas" need protection
afrol News, 2 November - A Cameroonian environmentalist group is lobbying for the establishment of a new national park at Cross River on the Nigerian border to protect a little known sub-species of gorillas only living there.
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Kenya
Development | Policy | Primary Education
Kenyan pupils find teachers in laptops
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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Africa | East Africa
Policy | Poverty | Social sciences | Social Services
East Africa a new population heavyweight
afrol News, 20 October - The East African region is slowly developing into one of the world's new population blocks, with the region surpassing all of North America in few years and all of Europe by the 2040s. A new, major power may be building up.
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Africa
Development | Social sciences
Press Freedom Index for Africa "a joke"
afrol News editorial, 20 October - The reputable press freedom organisation Reporters Sans Frontières today presented its annual "Press Freedom Index". For Africa, the listing "cannot be taken seriously," the afrol News editor holds, adding that "methods are totally flawed."
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Africa
Development | Natural sciences
Scientists create African banana Wiki
afrol News, 5 October - Soon all information on bananas in Africa, including the banana growing areas, yield, socio-economic status of the farmers and spread of pests and diseases, will be available on a scientist-driven online dictionary.
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Benin
Policy | Primary Education
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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Niger | World
Development | Food Security | Policy | Social sciences
Aid back to basics: Cash handouts in Niger
afrol News, 27 September - Despite countless emergency aid efforts and models, Niger's drought and flood victims still go hungry. Now, several aid agencies will go back to basics, providing families with cash handouts.
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Africa
Development | Natural sciences | Science | Social sciences
Cowpea scientists promise to end African hunger
afrol News, 27 September - Researchers specialising in cowpea production are currently gathered in Dakar, Senegal, trying to forward their "revolution" of African agriculture. Cowpeas are "the perfect crop for Africa," they hold.
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Congo Kinshasa
Diseases | Natural sciences | Science
Cousin of smallpox virus spreading in DR Congo
afrol News, 24 September - The deadly smallpox virus was eradicated worldwide in 1979, and the year after, vaccination stopped. But the vaccine had also protected against the dangerous "monkeypox" virus, and now a new generation in DR Congo is increasingly exposed to the disease.
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