Pietermaritzburg: While the dramatic improvement in the matric pass rate grabbed headlines and commentators debated its ‘real meaning', behind those headlines was a bigger ‘good news' story begging to be told. It is a story of good news in several areas provincially and it has the potential to bring?

Lilongwe: It is unfortunate that Minister of Information and Civic Education Symon Vuwa Kaunda did not report corruption circumstances to relevant authorities within 48 hours as the law stipulates. The irony is that part of Kaunda's brief as Minister of Information and Civic Education is to articulate?

London: Shortlyafter the birth of her sixth child, Mathilde went with her baby into the fields to collect the harvest. She saw two men approaching, wearing what she says was the uniform of the FDLR, a Rwandan militia. Fleeing them she ran into another man, who beat her head with a metal bar. She?

Kigali: Nation Media Group (NMG) through its fast growing publication "The East African" run a captivating story in its magazine section, two weeks ago, rating the performance of Africa's leaders and providing a score for each. For those who missed the story, NMG index dubbed "The African Presidents'?

Is Australian development aid effective? The answer is yes in a narrow sense of delivering programs, but in terms of impact on poverty we do not know in any systematic way. As AusAID's own watchdog, the Office of Development Effectiveness, notes in its just released Annual Review for 2009: AusAID?

Nairobi: The government decision to introduce a quota system on admissions to national schools finally proves what most of us have been pointing out as wrong with KCPE (Not 8-4-4, but KCPE). The Ministry has over the decades allowed the private education sector, business people and God knows who?

Harare: When Zimbabwe schools re-open this week, younger scholars will find they have text books for the first time in many years. A record 13 million text books are being delivered to Zimbabwe's primary schools. Education minister David Coltart said the massive text-book order, a record for Zimbabwe,?

Lusaka: Education Minister Dora Siliya has directed school management countrywide to allow pupils who fail to pay school fees and for those who buy uniforms from outside schools to attend classes. At a Press briefing in Lusaka yesterday, Ms Siliya said the ministry had received numerous complaints?

Dar es Salaam: Rachel Mgwasa, a parent who lives in the Msasani suburb of Dar es Salaam, was willing to do whatever it took to ensure that her 12-year-old daughter received quality education as she started Form One last year. For Rachel and her husband, that meant not only enrolling their child at?

Kanifing: The paucity of qualified science teachers in local schools is seriously hampering the Gambian education ministry's drive to produce on a regular basis a bunch of students well grounded in the sciences, said a senior official of the ministry who also claimed that the standard of science education?

Dar es Salaam: TheUniversity of Dar es Salaam Academic Staff Association (UDASA) has dedicated this year to constitutional change debates with the first symposium taking part on Saturday. The UDASA Deputy Chairman, Dr Kitila Mkumbo, told reporters in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday that the main speakers?

Tunis: The protests that have gripped Tunisia in recent weeks are, to say the least, unusual. Organized dissent in the streets is rarely tolerated in Arab states, and human rights groups say the Tunisian government has had a short fuse when dealing with opponents. But what's going on in Tunisia is?

Pietermaritzburg: Socialmedia have become the proverbial soap-box for causes, issues and many things that need a voice. Social-media campaigns spearheaded by individuals often lose momentum because they fail to mobilise people. The power of platforms like Facebook, Twitter and blogs lies in the fact?

Accra: Corruption is an endemic cancer that has devastated African societies and impoverished millions. According to the Africa Union (AU) around $148 billion are stolen from the continent by its leaders and civil servants every year. The 2006 Forbes' list of most corrupt nations had 9 out of the?

London: At the start of one of Africa's busiest political seasons - more than 17 elections are due this year - the deepening crisis in Cte d'Ivoire sends a brutal reminder of the limits of electoral politics. The idea that free-ish multiparty elections supervised by the United Nations were going?

Johannesburg: Theory is important, not just to philosophers but to all of us, because how we understand our world enables us to direct our actions in a manner that is most fruitful and more likely to achieve the results we seek. The words "national", "democratic" and "revolution" are concepts - ways?

Lagos: Allover the world, Central Bank governors are not popular technocrats. Unlike top politicians and civil servants, no one in the grassroots bothers to know the name of the governor of the central bank. Although they make critical macroeconomic decisions that affect the lives of millions of?

Doha: Speakers gave a call for closer co-operation between governments and civil society organisations at different levels as the 7th Forum for Future of G8 and countries of the Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMena) got underway at Ritz Carlton Doha yesterday. Calling upon the representatives?