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Central African Republic
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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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Kenya
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UK halts Kenya education aid

afrol News, 16 March - The British government announces it will halt its £20 million funding of the Kenyan government's education sector due to fears of fraud and embezzlement. Funds would instead be directed to organisations or "directly to schools."

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East Africa
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East African students enjoined in integration research

afrol News, 11 February - About eleven regional youth have been awarded scholarships to the East African Community Nyerere Centre for Research (EAC-NCPR) for undergraduate and internship programmes to be conducted at the EAC-NCPR in Arusha.

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World | Africa
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Education still under attack - Unesco

afrol News, 11 February - A new report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has found that politically and ideologically motivated attacks against teachers, students and schools are on the rise, calling for greater community involvement to reduce such incidents.

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Senegal | World
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Experts on black-eyed peas to meet in Dakar

afrol News, 26 January - Experts from around the world are expected to present the state of the art in cowpea research, building upon technological advances to move the science of cowpea forward, with the ultimate aim of identifying myriads of opportunities for cowpea growers to gain higher incomes, greater food security, and lead healthier lives.

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» 23.11.2009 - Women researchers still scarce, UNESCO
» 18.11.2009 - Heart disease discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies
» 04.11.2009 - GM potato gets roasting in South Africa
» 06.10.2009 - Indian Ocean nations to test tsunami warning system
» 01.10.2009 - Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana youth to benefit from Cocoa development grant
» 23.09.2009 - UNESCO elects new chief
» 15.09.2009 - $70 million to revive Zimbabwe’s education
» 07.09.2009 - EU commissioner in Africa to boost science partnership
» 27.08.2009 - New teacher training college for Malawi
» 25.08.2009 - UNICEF grants DR Congo $500.000
» 14.08.2009 - $1.7m grant for African Leadership Centre
» 05.08.2009 - Poverty a threat to education, UN
» 05.06.2009 - Mahale Ecosystem research project launched
» 02.06.2009 - Scientists call for African genomics boost
» 22.05.2009 - Botswana begins building new science university
» 21.05.2009 - Cape Verde wants emigrants back
» 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
» 01.04.2009 - Morocco to modernise its educational system
» 25.02.2009 - Zim teachers end year long strike
» 05.12.2008 - Africa, Europe deepen higher education links
» 16.10.2008 - Zimbabwe’s education in much deeper crisis
» 09.10.2008 - Cairo among top ten emerging global outsourcing cities
» 25.09.2008 - WFP welcomes private sector partnership to feed world's poor children
» 03.01.2008 - Gambia increases salaries
» 24.07.2007 - Egypt to streamline and strengthen science policy
» 16.07.2007 - Stakeholders bang heads on 'Brain Drain' in Malawi
» 01.06.2007 - Mali gets serious about home-grown science
» 28.03.2007 - Mozambique aims to lead "green revolution"
» 27.03.2007 - Students protests return to fragile Guinea
» 26.03.2007 - Nigeria's native languages to promote science application
» 09.03.2007 - Uganda decries lack of research on sleeping sickness
» 26.02.2007 - South Africa's schools start bridging apartheid gap
» 23.02.2007 - Gambia expels UN rep over AIDS cure grills
» 23.01.2007 - Zambia's science ambitions get recognition
» 15.01.2007 - 10,000 South African educators to die of AIDS
» 22.12.2006 - African scientists eligible for European funding
» 16.11.2006 - Moroccan professors strike over work conditions
» 09.11.2006 - West Africa still world's least developed region
» 02.11.2006 - "Science ignores Africa's native crops"
» 06.09.2006 - "Sack SA Health Minister" - world's AIDS experts
» 01.06.2006 - Tanzanian church still opposes condoms, sex education
» 03.05.2006 - Somali MPs sent on constitution training
» 27.04.2006 - Mauritius urges laureates to return home
» 25.04.2005 - Cameroon students on hunger strike
» 06.04.2005 - Puntland (Somalia) to introduce free primary schools
» 04.04.2005 - Most South African educators dissatisfied with job
» 11.03.2005 - Burkina Faso graduates first wetland scientists
» 23.02.2005 - Outrage as Botswana expels critical academic
» 08.02.2005 - Basic education soon universal in Morocco
» 03.02.2005 - Rwanda's secondary schools to be connected by 2017
» 18.11.2004 - "Zambia not hindered from hiring teachers," IMF
» 11.11.2004 - Coelacanths inspire science in South Africa
» 13.08.2004 - Madagascar educates 1 million school drop-outs
» 12.07.2004 - Nigeria may join Global University System
» 30.06.2004 - South Africa's science sector reorganised
» 03.06.2004 - Education on South Africa's farms "neglected"
» 28.05.2004 - Brain drain: "Europe poaching African healthcare workers"
» 03.12.2003 - Education projects in Niger financed
» 11.11.2003 - Ethiopia wants skilled Diaspora to return

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