Nigeria has one of world’s highest numbers of out-of-school children, 13.2 million, according to the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF). A wave of school kidnappings has worsened the situation, with some state authorities closing down boarding schools in th…
Experts from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund say it’s urgent and essential that children across the African continent return to school soon, and safely. To that end, the U.N. agencies have formulated guide…
WASHINGTON – Relatively few students in the U.S. have opportunities to study abroad, says Mohamed Abdel-Kader, executive director of the Stevens Initiative, a public-private partnership based at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C.Some estimates rig…
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopians are expressing anger and frustration over several university students, most of them female, who remain missing after their kidnapping two months ago.A growing social media campaign echoes the (hash)BringBackOurGirls activism in…
HONG KONG – Student protesters are barricading themselves at universities across Hong Kong, stockpiling makeshift weapons and turning campuses into what look like war zones. It marks a dangerous new phase in Hong Kong’s 5-month-old anti-government prot…
ACCRA – Artificial intelligence took center stage as African female technology experts met at Women in Tech Week in Ghana to promote women’s involvement in the field. When Lily Edinam Botsyoe was studying computer science at a university in Ghana, stud…