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President Obama Announces New Initiative for Africa Youths

  Starting next summer, African youth will have an opportunity to gain technical and leadership skills through a new Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) internship program, Africa’s Promise. MCC’s new initiative,.

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African Varsities to Develop Curricula to Tackle Land Governance Challenges

Senior leadership drawn from sixteen African universities and institutions of higher learning have endorsed key recommendations to review land governance curricula, with a view to ensuring land professions better respond.

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Nigeria: Basic Education Needs 1.3 Million Teachers– Minister

  A shocking revelation came recently when the Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu said that in order to bridge the wide gap between the number of teachers required.

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Zimbabwe: Defence Force Donates $300 000 Clinic to Community

  The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) recently unveiled a $300,000 state-of-the-art clinic built by the army at Chingwizi in Nuanetsi Ranch, Mwenezi, to cater for over 3,000 families displaced by.

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Uganda: Government to Downsize Civil Service

The government of Uganda is has recently planned to downsize the civil service in order to help save money to improve on service delivery. President Museveni had tasked former Finance.

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Nigeria: Novelist Adichie Urges Pupils to Develop Interest in Reading

Renowned novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has charged pupils to develop interest in reading as readers apart from having the capacity to make informed choices, while also preparing themselves to occupy.

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Smell of Chicken Repels Malaria Mosquitoes- Scientists

Malaria researchers have recently found that keeping a chicken by bedsides, could help keep away mosquito bites that spread malaria. According to the research, the malaria-carrying mosquitoes (anopheles mosquito) are.

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Ghana: Six Polytechnics to Be Upgraded to Technical University Status

Ghana’s Education Committee of Parliament, has recently stated that six public polytechnics earmarked for conversion into technical universities have met the eligibility criteria. The Polytechnics are Accra, Ho, Koforidua, Sunyani,.

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Nigeria: Experts Advocate Vocational Training to Boost Entrepreneurship

As part of efforts to eradicate the scourge of unemployment and youth restiveness in Nigeria, Fountain Initiative for Social Development [FISD], has recently advocated empowerment of youths to promote self-reliance.

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Tanzania: Govt. to Wage War against Malnutrition

The government of Tanzania has recently pledged to mount an all-out war against malnutrition by increasing funding in the coming national budgets.

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