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1.	Child witchcraft allegations on the rise - UNICEF report link
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 16 July 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: witchcraft, poverty, UNICEF report, education,
	Summary & Comment: Le francais suit. Children are Africa’s latest victims of witchcraft. They have been forced to leave their homes after wrongly in most cases being accused of witchcraft, and they end up staying on the streets where at times they join criminal gangs. See link to 66 page UNICEF report. FJ
2.	AIMS: Transforming Africa, one student at a time
	Author: Neil Turok	Date Written: 2 July 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Globe and Mail
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://v1.theglobeandmail.com
	Key Words: Education, scientist, government
	Summary & Comment: What can stop the next Albert Einstein coming from Africa to root out its poverty and lack of access to resources? Nothing when its peoples potential is recognized and invested in wisely. M.Makoni
3.	South Africa: Lifeskills from the beautiful game
	Author: Kerry Cullinan	Date Written: 21 June 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Health-e
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL: http://www.health-e.org.za
	Key Words: South Africa, health, HIV/AIDS, prevention, young, football,
	Summary & Comment: Thousands of boys and girls in Edendale learn life skills while they learn to play soccer. Ten hours of life skills woven into soccer coaching develop them personally, socially, and physically and give them information about how to protect themselves from HIV infection. Whizzkids also breaks down gender stereotypes; each team has three girls and th . . . [expand]
4.	Kenya-Somalia: I refuse to sell my daughter
	Author: IRIN, Kakuma	Date Written: 21 June 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Kenya	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Kenya, Somalia, refugees, children’s human rights
	Summary & Comment: A father was willing to sell his 14-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man for US$4,000 because he felt it was more important to "secure the future". However, the young girl has not been able to leave the house for the past four years as a result of her father’s actions. JDN
5.	Tchad : Les enfants déplacés nourris par les jésuites
	Author: Isabelle Cousturié, Rome	Date Written: 15 June 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: ZEN IT
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.zenit.org
	Key Words: Tchad, enfants déplacés, jésuites,
	Summary & Comment: « Un enfant affamé n’a point d’oreilles ». Sur les quelque 30.000 enfants en âge d’être scolarisés, seuls 500 sont inscrits dans les écoles publiques soutenues par l’Etat. Le JRS espère une croissance du taux d’inscription et de fréquentation des écoles parce que l’apport de 40 tonnes de nourriture depuis le 10 février a permis aux écoles soutenues . . . [expand]
6.	World day against child labour - 2010
	Author: Education Int’l, & Int’l Labour Office, Geneva	Date Written: 12 June 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Education International & International Labour
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.ei-ie.org
	Key Words: Global, child labour, children’s human rights
	Summary & Comment: To mark "World Day Against the Child Labour", Education International and ILO International Programmes have made a 12-page colourful pamphlet available. It can be downloaded in pdf at "Go for the Goal: End Child Labour". It is useful well beyond June 12, 2010. JDN
7.	Ghana: Curbing child migrant flows to capital
	Author: IRIN, Accra	Date Written: 10 June 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Ghana, childreen’s education, health & nutrition, human rights
	Summary & Comment: Good laws already in place need to be enforced so that young children are in school rather than working in the local markets. Efforts are being made by NGOs to provide school fees and equipment in some deprived areas. They also monitor the progress of the children and their parents. JDN

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1. Africa: 2010 Distinguished Africanist Awards
   Professor N’Dri Assie-Lumumba and Professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo were awarded, each separately and for their respective scholarship, the 2010 Distinguished Africanist Award offered by the New York State African Studies Association (NYASA) on March...
2. Africa: African students to get common history syllabus
   In an effort to ensure that African youth learn about their common heritage, the UN, historians, education specialists and governments are now developing a history syllabus for schools across the continent. The new syllabus is to be based on the book...
3. Africa: Renewing the promise of Education for All
   The World Cup is wreaking havoc with a key millennium development goal in South Africa: as the football tournament hit its stride, not a single child across the nation attended school. It's temporary, of course: the winter holiday has been extended s...
4. Africa: Making education inclusive for all
   Educational inclusion relates to all children accessing and meaningfully participating in quality education, in ways that are responsive to their individual needs. The terms ‘inclusion’ and inclusive education’ are often used in relation to children ...
5. Somalia: School clubs help Somaliland children overcome trauma
   When Sabah Ismail Ali, a social worker in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland, first started working with children, truancy and aggression were common, especially among children from families with problems such as extreme poverty and displ...