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Paris, France (PANA) - The number of out-of-school children, adolescents and young people has started to rise again worldwide, reaching 273 million in 2024, or about 17% of the world's school-age population, according to a UNESCO report published on Wednesday

©- - 26 march 2026 - 06:36:46 - thread (582 words)


Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Broadcaster Rami Al-Sharafi works on a laptop inside the damaged Zaman FM radio station building in Gaza, marking what may seem an unlikely return to the airwaves amid the rubble of the deadly two-year Israel-Hamas war

©- - 13 february 2026 - 18:39:42 - thread (479 words)


Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - More children in war-ravaged Gaza are now back in the classroom, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) said on Friday

©- - 17 january 2026 - 09:22:19 - thread (166 words)


Paris, France (PANA) - Despite significant progress in access to education, educational inequalities are widening due to the climate crisis, conflicts, and technological changes

©- - 10 december 2025 - 08:01:39 - thread (745 words)



Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The illicit trade in cultural property is one of the world’s oldest and most profitable forms of criminal activity – but now efforts by the UN and law enforcement agencies across the world are helping to bring down these global operations

©- - 14 november 2025 - 18:38:16 - thread (700 words)


Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Omar Mokhtar University, based in Benghazi in the east, has signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Malaysian academic institutions for joint academic and training programmes and strengthening academic and training cooperation

©- - 07 october 2025 - 14:17:13 - thread (352 words)


 

 

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - For millions of girls in Afghanistan, it has been four long years since the ban on secondary education came into force, one of many rights abuses rolled out by the de facto authorities since they regained control of Kabul

©- - 17 september 2025 - 16:53:00 - thread (1072 words)


Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The denial of access to education for Palestinian children for three consecutive academic years, combined with the killing of thousands of students and the destruction of educational infrastructure, is a humanitarian emergency and a grave breach of international law

©- - 17 september 2025 - 05:19:41 - thread (466 words)


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)