Global Education Summit raises $4bn

August 1, 2021 THE Global Education Summit has raised $4 billion in pledges from donors for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), which will assist some 175 million children to learn and help get 88 million more girls and boys in school by 2025 in 87 low- and middle-income countries, of which 35 are in […]

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Make or break for education in Africa

July 26, 2020 AS delegates prepare to attend the Global Education Summit in London on July 28 and 29, African governments have been given a stark warning: make their spending on education more efficient to better transform young lives. Currently, many of these governments spend around five per cent of GDP on education, the second […]

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ICC sentences Ongwen to 25 years in prison

ICC sentences Ongwen to 25 years in prison May 7, 2021 DOMINIC Ongwen, who was abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) when he was 10, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Northern […]

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ICC Appeals Chamber upholds Gbagbo’s acquittal

ICC Appeals Chamber upholds Gbagbo’s acquittal April 1, 2021 THE Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court has upheld the acquittal by the ICC’s Trial Chamber in January 2019 of former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, and his ex-Minister of Sports and Youth, Charles Blé Goudé. The decision is final and all conditions on […]

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