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Their parents are asking for help to evacuate their children from Tigray. as reported from Nairobi, Albane ThirouardSince the rebel forces from Tigray took over Mekele, the communications network has been cut off again and most roads in the region have been blocked. In addition, there is a lack of food. In total, more than…

Ethiopian parents call for help to evacuate students stranded by the Tigray War ADDIS ABABA - Parents of thousands of Ethiopian students stranded in the war-ravaged northern Tigray region on Friday asked for help evacuating them after the main university warned it could not feed them any longer in due to food and cash shortages. The University of Mekelle, which receives its budget from the…

In Kédougou, a landlocked region 700 km from Dakar in southeastern Senegal, young people and students have demonstrated on several occasions in recent weeks. They want to integrate international mining companies that mine gold in their region. An extraction activity that places gold in first place among the exported products, with a 20% increase in exports between 2018 and 2019. Nevertheless, Kédougou…

A Koran school in the state of Niger in the north-central part of the country was attacked by armed men on Sunday, May 30, 2021. The school accommodates more than 200 students and no results are yet known. According to a statement from the local police, armed men arrived on motorcycles and attacked the Salihu Tanko Koranic…

In Burkina Faso, the Federation of Education and Research Unions has supported students who have been fighting for several weeks against the reform of exams. The Ministry of National Education had announced reforms on BEPC and BAC degrees, including the abolition of a subject in certain subjects and the organization of bac which…

Convicted of a crime against humanity and of disturbing world order, Covid-19 was sentenced to disappear permanently from Earth without the possibility of rebirth in a mock trial organized on Saturday, April 24 by students at a private high school in Brazzaville who tried him before an "International Criminal Court of Pandemics ”. This courtyard was installed in a large room in the Lycée Camara Laye. The audience, which consisted mainly of parents of students, took place more than an hour before the trial against humanity…

Demonstrations for the return of peace continue. In Beni in particular, the students decided to spend the night in front of the town hall building to demand that the head of state be present in the region. Félix Tshisekedi had promised to move army personnel from Kinshasa to northern Kivu, and he had announced that he himself would come to settle in the region. This is what these young people remember in this movement that has been radicalized since Thursday 22 April. Here the students organize themselves. Those who…

The authorities and the principal of their school confirm that the 344 high school students in Kankara all returned healthy and sound, after negotiations with their prisoners. This kidnapping was claimed twice by the Boko Haram group, but was carried out by criminal groups in the region. We also know a little more thanks to the testimonies of the children who were reunited with their families on Friday…

In Nigeria, high school students who were caught last weekend at their boarding school in Kankara, northwestern Nigeria, were released on the evening of Thursday, December 17. This mass kidnapping was claimed twice by Abubakar Shekau, leader of a Boko Haram faction, first Tuesday, then Thursday, through a video showing dozens of children being shown by armed men. Some of them are now free, while the…

The Boko Haram group claimed responsibility for the abduction of at least 333 high school students this Tuesday, December 15, in the state of Katsina in northwestern Nigeria. This mass kidnapping, reminiscent of the abduction of 276 high school girls from Chibok in 2014 in Borno State, is the first incident of this magnitude in western Nigeria, until it was spared by the jihadist threat. In the country,…