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Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - “Instead of studying in school, we’re living in it,” said Diana, summing up the conditions faced by thousands of children in the Gaza Strip whose lives have been turned upside down by war who now face the prospect of a third year without education

©- - 03 september 2025 - 07:24:27 - thread (846 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Governments of Mauritania and Chad on Tuesday signed funding agreements for the Regional Engagement for Learning and Collaboration in Education (RELANCE) Project, supported by the World Bank and the Federal Republic of Germany, for a total of $137 million

©- - 23 july 2025 - 07:36:02 - thread (601 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's interim Minister of Education in the government of national unity, Ali al-Abed al-Rida, held talks with the Deputy Special Representative, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Aeneas Chuma, on areas of cooperation to support and develop the education sector and strengthen partnerships between the ministry and United Nations agencies, in particular the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

©- - 16 july 2025 - 12:42:59 - thread (225 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – With nearly 200 million children and youth missing out on secondary school worldwide while another 72 million kids who should be in primary school are not, the global education figures make for grim reading, Human Rights Watch says the global education is in crisis

©- - 08 july 2025 - 12:27:51 - thread (399 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In the Central African Republic, disability carries a deep-rooted stigma, and persons with disabilities often find themselves excluded from almost every avenue of life

©- - 08 june 2025 - 15:40:17 - thread (792 words)


Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intensifying conflict, intercommunal violence and mass displacement are forcing hundreds of thousands of children out of school

©- - 01 june 2025 - 05:21:36 - thread (242 words)


Accra, Ghana (PANA) - About 500 participants, including more than 80 Africa Higher Education Centres of Excellence (ACEs), policy makers, higher education leaders, industry experts, and development partners have gathered in Accra, Ghana, from April 7 to 9, for a three-day celebration marking the tenth anniversary of the ACE programme, a transformative journey in Africa’s higher education

©- - 08 april 2025 - 09:51:05 - thread (881 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Africa Children’s Summit 2025 which ended in Johannesburg on Monday brought together some of the brightest and courageous young leaders from across the continent

©- - 08 april 2025 - 06:03:14 - thread (194 words)


Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Wisam sits in her classroom, absorbed in her work, her fingers gripping a blue-coloured pencil, carefully sketching a flower in her notebook, one of more than 100,000 displaced students in war-torn Sudan who have returned to classes, with the support of Education Cannot Wait for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) efforts to distribute urgently needed school supplies to help them get back to learning

©- - 27 february 2025 - 19:45:45 - thread (1060 words)


Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is  to inject US$142 million into Niger's education sector, the official Niger News Agency (ANP) has reported

©- - 18 february 2025 - 15:53:24 - thread (258 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Marking the International Day of Education, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has emphasized learning as a basic human right and foundation for individual and societal growth

©- - 25 january 2025 - 07:43:48 - thread (603 words)


Paris, France (PANA) - Despite decades of educational progress and international commitments, a quarter of a billion children and youth remain out of school worldwide, the latest Global Education Monitoring Report by UN education agency, UNESCO, said on Thursday

©- - 01 november 2024 - 06:35:25 - thread (416 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Gambia has given Gambia made up of 40 university scholarships 20 for undergraduate studies and 20 for postgraduate studies in Arabic language and Islamic studies

©- - 19 october 2024 - 11:57:20 - thread (226 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Monday would have marked the start of the new school year in Gaza, but the ongoing war continues to deprive hundreds of thousands of children of this fundamental right, UN agencies have warned

©- - 10 september 2024 - 05:23:11 - thread (636 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of attacks on students, teachers and schools, resulting in an “incalculable cost” for children affected by conflict around the world, Secretary-General António Guterres said a message commemorating the International Day to Protect Education from Attack which fell on Monday

©- - 10 september 2024 - 05:06:34 - thread (591 words)


Washington, United States (PANA) - To safeguard the progress achieved in the education sector against challenges posed by the current financial crisis in São Tomé and Príncipe, the World Bank Board of Directors has approved the Safeguarding Access to Fiscal and Educational Resources Project (SAFER) with a grant of $24 million from the International Development Association (IDA)

©- - 03 august 2024 - 09:58:17 - thread (320 words)


Maseru, Lesotho (PANA) - A new package of World Bank support to Lesotho will see a major boost for the country’s education sector with work focused on enhancing infrastructure and physical learning conditions in targeted primary and secondary schools and improving the quality of teaching

©- - 03 july 2024 - 06:42:08 - thread (398 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 115,110 students on Sunday began the final examinations for the first session of the secondary school leaving certificate, the baccalaureate, for the 2023-2024 school year, throughout Libya

©- - 23 june 2024 - 12:37:59 - thread (189 words)


Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The government of Burkina Faso on Thursday adopted a decree creating the Presidential Initiative for Quality Education for All (IPEQ), with the aim of offering citizens innovative education free of shortcomings of all kinds

©- - 21 june 2024 - 11:02:21 - thread (249 words)


Dakar, Senegal, (PANA) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says most African countries are not meeting their commitments to allocate the 20 per cent of their national budget benchmark on education, as recommended by the Sustainable Development Goal framework for action for education

©- - 16 june 2024 - 13:07:18 - thread (999 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's only public university, based in Bujumbura, is to receive State subsidies to relaunch its accommodation, catering, acquisition and maintenance of movable and immovable assets, as well as its scholarship and loan management services, a press release issued on Friday following Thursday's weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers said

©- - 14 june 2024 - 15:55:09 - thread (285 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A delegation from the High Council of State and the Libyan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has met its Malaysian counterpart with their discussions focusing on the Malaysian experience in information and communications technology (ICT) and Islamic banking finance

©- - 27 april 2024 - 12:38:52 - thread (162 words)