Noticia África

Education in emergency in Nigeria: Creating gender equitable policies so all girls have an uninterrupted right to learn

Publicado: 30 julio 2021

Nigeria/July 30, 2021/By: Edem Dorothy Ossai/Source: https://www.brookings.edu/ Even under what some may describe as normal conditions, girls in Nigeria face a distinctive set of barriers to formal education at all levels. Nearly 2 out of 3 (about 6.34 million) of the country’s 10.19 million out-of-school children in the country are girls. Prior to the outbreak of […]

Yemen y cómo mantener viva la esperanza educativa

Publicado: 28 julio 2021

Yemen/28 de julio de 2021/Por Philippe Duamelle*/Fuente: https://elpais.com En un contexto de grave crisis humanitaria y sin un apoyo urgente, el número de niños sin escolarizar podría aumentar a seis millones en el país, según Unicef. Su representante en terreno cuenta los efectos en toda una generación. “Espero que algún día pueda volver a mi […]

Northern Nigeria state suspends schools due to insecurity

Publicado: 28 julio 2021

Nigeria/July 28, 2021/By Garba Muhammed /Source: https://www.euronews.com/ The northern Nigerian state of Kaduna has suspended all schooling due to insecurity, state officials said on Monday, amid a spate of student kidnappings in the region that has rocked Africa’s most populous country. “We have asked students to stay away for three weeks, after which in the third […]

28 abducted Baptist school students freed in Nigeria

Publicado: 26 julio 2021

Nigeria/July 26, 2021/By IBRAHIM GARBA and SAM OLUKOYA/Source: https://apnews.com/ Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials handed those children over to their parents at the school on […]

How Covid-19 threatened girl-child education in Northern Nigeria

Publicado: 22 julio 2021

Nigeria/July 22, 2021/By: https://www.blueprint.ng/ The girl-child education is faced with numerous challenges especially in northern Nigeria where economic barriers, social cultural norms and practices, among other factors, discourage parents/guardians from enrolling the girl-child in formal education. A recent report by UNICEF indicates that one in every five of the world’s out-of- school children is in Nigeria, of […]

What’s Behind the Spate of School Kidnappings in Nigeria?

Publicado: 19 julio 2021

Nigeria/July 19, 2021/By Akindare Okunola/Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/ At least 1,000 children have been kidnapped since December 2020. Nigeria has the highest number of out of school children in Africa, according to its Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba. There are various reasons why Nigeria has so many children who are not getting any formal education, but in […]