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Gladys showing her family the laptop
Kenya
Technology | Science - Education

Kenyan pupils find teachers in laptops

afrol News - Gladys Lokilamak is always cheery in the afternoons. This is the time that she and her colleagues at the remote Asilong Primary School in north-western Kenya normally find fun in education - through laptops.

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Education in Benin
Africa | East Africa
Economy - Development | Science - Education | Society

East Africa a new population heavyweight

afrol News - The East African region is slowly developing into one of the world's new population blocks, with the region surpassing all of North America in few years and all of Europe by the 2040s. A new, major power may be building up.

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Wangpala school in Kenya
Kenya | Africa
Society | Human rights | Science - Education

Abolishing fees boosts African schooling

Africa Renewal - When the Kenyan government announced it would stop charging fees for primary school education - just days before the beginning of the 2003 school year - the result was pandemonium. Teachers, headmasters and parents scrambled to find desks, pencils and books for over a million extra students. Many African countries have followed Kenya's example.

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Lemurs are Madagascar's signature species, mostly confined to the island's ever-shrinking forests.
Madagascar
Science - Education | Environment - Nature

Origin of Madagascar's peculiar species

afrol News - Madagascar's isolated and fascinating fauna has puzzled scientists and laymen for centuries. The main question has been: How did they get to the Great Island in the first place, later being allowed to evolve in splendid isolation? Read the new research and see the video claiming to end a century of scientific debate.

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Mangroves in the Casamance (Senegal)

Environment - Nature | Science - Education

The Mangroves
an undervalued ecosystem


afrol News - Historically classified "unhealthy wastelands" or "useless swamps" by development-eager authorities and businesses, the mangrove forests actually are one of the most fascinating resources in tropical Africa. The trees manage to live on the edge between flooding rivers, tidal waves intruding with salt water and the drylands, where they create new land and environs rich in fish, birds, wood and other resources. Finally, their value is being discovered.

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UNAIDS image of Africa

Health | Science - Education

Is the African AIDS pandemic a bluff?

afrol News - A growing number of researchers question the "official" inflated numbers of HIV/AIDS prevalence in African countries such as Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. Poor testing, a special diagnosis of AIDS in Africa and erroneous computer-generated estimates by the UN had led to "misleading" numbers, they hold. The history of AIDS in Uganda serves as proof.

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