Noticia África

Children in Nigeria learn chess to seek escape from country’s slums

Publicado: 7 mayo 2021

Nigeria/May 07, 2021/By Reuters/Source: https://nypost.com/ A dozen children crowd around plastic tables in the Majidun neighborhood of Lagos. Intently focused on plastic mats printed with chess boards, the children thoughtfully move pieces on the board as supervisors observe their moves. The waterside shanty town is just across the lagoon from the mansions and towering office […]

Angola: “Livros guardados, dinheiro amealhado”

Publicado: 2 mayo 2021

Angola 02 de maio 2021/Por: Manuel Albano/Fonte: https://www.jornaldeangola.ao Com uma bagagem pessoal de conhecimento invulgar e sem uma formação especializada como bibliotecário, João de Carvalho despertou há mais de 30 anos, em Luanda, o desejo, apaixonado, pelos livros. João de Carvalho despertou há mais de 30 anos, em Luanda, apaixonado, pelos livros © Fotografia por: […]

Why insurgent groups in northern Nigeria continue to kidnap school children

Publicado: 1 mayo 2021

Nigeria/May 01, 2021/By: Gemma Ware and Wale Fatade/Source: https://theconversation.com/ This is a transcript of episode 12 of The Conversation Weekly podcast: “Why children keep getting kidnapped in Nigeria + the Kenyan women who join Al-Shabaab”. In this episode, insurgent groups in northern Nigeria continue to kidnap schoolchildren as the government struggles to protect communities against […]

Student kidnappings threaten collapse of Nigerian education system

Publicado: 26 abril 2021

Nigeria/April 26, 2021/By: Adedeji Adeniran and Marco Castradori*/Source: https://www.brookings.edu/ The Nigerian education system is deep into crises on multiple fronts, including in areas of access and quality of education. However, the recent spate of mass kidnappings of schoolchildren arguably represents the gravest existential threat and crisis to the education system. In less than three months between December 2020 […]

Angola: Jovens empreendedores despertam paixão pelo cultivo do campo

Publicado: 25 abril 2021

Angola 24 de abril 2021/ Por: Augusto Cuteta/ Fonte: https://www.jornaldeangola.ao O número de jovens que procura financiamento, por meio do Plano de Acção para Promoção da Empregabilidade (PAPE), com vista à execução de projectos nos domínios da agricultura, pecuária e pesca tem estado a registar um crescimento considerável, anunciou o director-geral do Instituto Nacional do […]

Nigeria: UNICEF inaugurates radio clubs in N/E schools to boost education

Publicado: 17 abril 2021

Nigeria/April 17, 2021/By: Chimezie Godfrey/Source: https://newsdiaryonline.com/ The United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is targeting no fewer than one million children through school radio clubs programmes to support enrollment drive campaigns for the development of education in the North East, Nigeria. Mrs Elizabeth Onitolo, Communication for Development (C4D), UNICEF, made the disclosure at the official inauguration of the programme […]