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1.	Kenya: Teachers Service Commission warns teachers over beating pupils
	Author: Aggrey Mutambo	Date Written: 22 January 2012
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Daily Nation, Kenya
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.nation.co.ke/
	Key Words: corporal punishment, education, discipline, children
	Summary & Comment: The recent death of a schoolchild has prompted a reminder from that Kenyan Teachers Service Commission that corporal punishment of students is actually torture. Because the student failed to do all of his homework, he was caned and died days later, allegedly due to the beating. Banned in schools since 2002, some teachers see corporal punishment as . . . [expand]
2.	Democratic Republic of Congo: Rebuilding the lives of children associated with armed groups
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 16 January 2012
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: children, conflict, DRC, demobilization, armed groups, trauma, volunteers
	Summary & Comment: Humanitarian organizations have partnered together to support thousands of children throughout the DRC formerly affiliated to armed groups. With the support of volunteers, these children are re-integrating into society, recovering from feelings of fear and shame, and developing new goals to help redefine their lives. SLP
3.	Swaziland: Small loans for young entrepreneurs to help fight crisis
	Author: Mantoe Phakathi	Date Written: 30 December 2011
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.ips.org/
	Key Words: employment, business, economy, loans
	Summary & Comment: While much criticism was leveled on Swaziland during its recent economic crisis, the government established a Youth Employment Fund to provide seed money to unemployed young adults to start businesses in the country. Training provided through the programme, coupled with enthusiasm and hard work, has given young people a chance at a bright future. C . . . [expand]
4.	Our time to be heard: Liberian youth and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate
	Author: Annette Jaitner	Date Written: 13 December 2011
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Space for Transparency
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://blog.transparency.org/
	Key Words: Empowerment, corruption, exclusion, CENTAL
	Summary & Comment: "Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , who was recently jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, has been re-elected as President of Liberia and has pledged to fight corruption during her second term. The challenge, says Annette Jaitner, Senior Programme Coordinator in Transparency International’s Africa and Middle East Department, is making sure t . . . [expand]
5.	Mali: Artisanal mines produce gold with child labor
	Author: Press Release	Date Written: 6 December 2011
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Human Rights Watch
	Secondary Category: Resource Extraction	Source URL: http://www.hrw.org/news/
	Key Words: Poisoning, mining, child labour, toxins
	Summary & Comment: Children as young as six are working in Mali's artisanal gold mines, despite having laws in the country to protect against child labour. Not only do they work in dangerous mine shafts and haul heavy loads of ore from underground, they use mercury to then separate gold from the ore. And then this gold makes it onto the international market with . . . [expand]
6.	The forgotten IDPs in Uganda
	Author: Samuel Siringi	Date Written: 18 November 2011
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: The Nation, Kenya
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.nation.co.ke/
	Key Words: Kenya, TJRC, refugees, UNHCR , families
	Summary & Comment: Young people in the IDP camps of Uganda want to return to the homeland their parents fled. Hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were displaced in the 2007 post-election violence, with many seeking refuge in Uganda. While most families have returned home, others have remained in Uganda in case violence erupts in Kenya again. Because the UNHCR registers . . . [expand]
7.	Democratic Republic of Congo: Millions miss out on basic education
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 14 November 2011
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Children, conflict, land grab, budget
	Summary & Comment: A number of factors are conspiring to keep kids out of school in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite the country's 2006 decision to provide free primary education. A shortage of qualified teachers, land grabs by developers and lack of money all have to be addressed by the government. CJW

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1. Malawi: Lecturers resume work, but tensions persist
   Lecturers in Malawi have resolved to return to work to end nearly a year of academic freedom protests during a long-running impasse with the government. But with tensions and mistrust persisting, lecturers have been firm about setting out the conditi...
2. Ethiopia: Drought, floods hit education
   Parts of Ethiopia are still reeling from the effects of recent drought, flooding, conflict or a combination of the three, resulting in increased numbers of children dropping out of school, say officials. At least 385,000 school-children need 'emergen...
3. Zimbabwe: Teachers threaten to strike
   Zimbabwe's minister of education, David Coltart, says he is 'powerless' to stop a strike by the country's civil servants, as teachers press for higher salaries of $540 - more than double their current $250 paycheck - in a fresh sign of trouble that t...
4. South Africa: Stampede highlights education chaos
   Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande's 'wonderful problem' came back to haunt him when a woman was killed and 17 people injured in a stampede at the University of Johannesburg. Speaking at a hastily convened press conference following the acciden...
5. Tanzania: North-South partnerships are not the answer
   Government cuts in research and development (R&D) funding for higher education institutions have compelled public universities in Sub-Saharan Africa to establish extensive partnerships with universities, technology and research centres in the North. ...