In 2025, over 16 000 South African schools still have no access to connectivity for learning and teaching. Government has admitted to challenges in driving digital transformation in schools, noting its financial limitations in providing access to ICT tools and connectivity. As it stands, over 16 000 public schools remain offline. This was revealed during…
Cairo, Egypt — Children benefiting from national school meal programmes across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) increased by 22 percent in the past two years alone, despite conflict, economic downturn and the region’s complex humanitarian landscape. Now reaching 23.5 million children, these programmes are emerging as a strategic investment in education, nutrition, and…
School meals are a crucial way out of poverty into “a new world of learning and opportunity,” according to the World Food Programme (WFP) executive director Cindy McCain. The number of children receiving school meals through government-led programmes has gone up by 20 per cent since 2020, found the latest edition of the WFP‘s flagship…
Kigali — A new chapter in African leadership education has opened, and Liberia is proudly part of the story. Dr. Clarence K. Moniba has been recruited as a Professor of Leadership at the newly established African School of Governance (ASG), headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda. The African School of Governance, modeled after world-class institutions such as…
DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI: Twenty million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes than in 2022, according to the latest edition of the State of School Feeding Worldwide, a flagship global biennial report released today by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The African continent has seen the most significant rise…
Millions of new students are benefitting from school meals, as governments increasingly take leadership of WFP-supported programmes At Olympic Secondary School, in Nairobi’s informal settlement of Kibera, 17-year-old Mercy Mmboga carefully inspects the growth of young spinach leaves, arranged in rows of recycled plastic pipes in the school’s backyard. “I learned about hydroponics in agriculture…
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New York — Education funding faces US$3.2 billion decline by 2026, placing millions of children’s futures at risk As global education funding faces steep cuts, an estimated 6 million additional children could be out of school by the end of 2026, around one-third of them in humanitarian settings, UNICEF warned in a new analysis released…
Global education funding is facing sharp reductions that could leave an extra six million children out of school by 2026, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday. Official Development Assistance (ODA) for education is projected to fall by $3.2 billion – a 24 per cent drop from 2023 – with just three donor governments…
A Minneapolis couple who live a block from Annunciation Catholic School and the church where two children were killed and 18 other people were wounded Wednesday recalled the moments after they heard the gunfire from their home. Carla and Pedro Maldonado were in their kitchen when they heard the shots and realized after the second…
