Turkish Secondary school to be opened in the Somali Capital
Mogadishu (Alshahid)-A Turkish Secondary school will be opened in the Somali Capital Mogadishu in the next month, according to an Anatolia news agency report. Bilal Çelik, chairman of Turkish charity the Nil Organization said Wednesday that while preparations for the school building were under way, a test was made to select the students to the [...]
AMISOM hands over a school to Somalia Govt
Mogadishu (Alshahid) -Officials from the peacekeepers serving the African Union Mission in Somalia, (AMISOM) have handed over a school built at Jazeera location in the southern outskirts of Mogadishu. Asha Omar Ahmed, one of the initiators of the project, said that the school built by Amisom will cater for children of the Somalia military personnel. [...]
Kenyan teens prefer education first, marriage later
Nairobi (Alshahid)-A new study indicates Kenyan teenagers prefer to delay marriage citing other priorities in life such as education and career development. The youth social survey reveals that the average age teenagers intend to get married is 28. However, it indicates the youth are yet to accept that delaying sex before marriage is an [...]
Somalia: Books versus the bullet
Mogadishu (Alshahid) -Seventeen year old Mohamed Fatih Ali sat attentively in class. He was closely following what the lecturer was saying while he scribbled down notes very fast. But Fatih is not your normal idea of a student; many a times, he has dodged bullets while trying to attend class and has managed to stay [...]
Somali woman honored for work on education
Burlington (Alshahid) – Nimo Girreh grew up in Northern Somalia with a mother who could not write her own name and wanted something better for her daughter. That daughter would eventually graduate from college and make a new life for herself in Vermont. “She knew the importance of education,” Girreh said of her mother. [...]
Teach Somalis about dangers of illegal weapons: Galkayo University Students advised
Galkayo (Alshahid) – The Galmudug State President, Mohamed Ahmed Alin, has called on university of Galkayo students to share their time between studying and informing the public, especially young freelance gunmen, about the danger of illegal firearms. Fire arms are now a common tool used to rob civilians in the crime prone Southern Galkayo District [...]
Somali: Education most underfunded sector of humanitarian aid
Dadaab (Alshahid) – Despite being classified as a fundamental human right and recognized as providing much-needed psychological, physical and cognitive protection in emergency situations, education is the most underfunded sector in humanitarian aid. According to a recent report by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO only 2 percent of total humanitarian assistance is [...]
Kenya 8-4-4 Education system review team unveiled
Nairobi (Alshahid) -A team to review the 8-4-4 education system was launched on Wednesday. The 35-member taskforce will assess the implications of the new Constitution on education and determine the content to be taught in schools. Unveiling the team at the Kenya Institute of Education, Nairobi, Education minister Sam Ongeri said the entire structure of [...]
Somalia: Introduced Free education “too expensive” for state
Hargeisa (Alshahid) – The self-declared semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland has introduced free education at primary and intermediate levels and doubled teachers’ salaries but these decisions will be hard to sustain and could affect the quality of public education, say experts. “We need to ask ourselves, does the Somaliland government have the capacity to handle this [...]
Kenya: Education misery for Mau Forest evictees
Kapkembu-Mau (IRIN) – Hundreds of children are missing out on an education in Rift Valley’s Mau Forest region as families seeking refuge in temporary camps, following their eviction from the forest, struggle to find alternative livelihoods. “I did not go to school because there is no money,” said Mercy Chemng’etich, 7, at Mau’s Kapkembu camp. [...]