Timeline: Taliban crackdown on Afghan women’s education, rights | Taliban News
Group has backtracked on promises to guarantee certain rights for girls and women since its return to power last year.
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Education
Harvard appoints Claudine Gay as first Black president | Education News
The social scientist and daughter of Haitian immigrants says the university must ‘engage and be of service to the world’.
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Lessons from Sierra Leone: How to get girls back to school | Education
Mariamu* did not intend to give birth at school. She had discovered she was pregnant, aged 16, during Sierra Leone’s
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Tanzania scraps independence celebration, diverts funds to kids | Independence News
President Samia Suluhu Hassan redirected this year’s budget to building dormitories for children with special needs. Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu
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Nigeria junior schools to teach in local languages, not English | Education News
The new policy is to promote the use of Nigeria’s 625 local languages, but implementation remains uncertain. The Nigerian government
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Greece’s youth revolution | Politics
From: Generation Change Young activists in Greece take on systemic inequality, xenophobia and the far right. Iman Amrani travels to
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Burkina Faso schoolchildren pay double price in ongoing conflict | Education
Dakar, Senegal & Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso – In the small towns in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region, straddling the borders with
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Female-led African health startups press on despite funding lags | Health
Lagos, Nigeria – In 2017, when Abimbola Adebakin launched her startup MyMedicinesLab, her goal was to enable anyone nationwide to
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FIFA, UN bring football training to classrooms in Ivory Coast | Football News
The football training programme is being supported by UNESCO and has piloted in three countries including Ivory Coast. Children at
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48,000 California academic workers strike for higher wages | Labour Rights News
More than 48,000 academic workers in the University of California system have gone on strike over what they say are
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