Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, presents youth ambassador to the United Nations, Ruth Lawrence (right) with her instrument of appointment, during a ceremony at King’s House on February 8. Sharing the proud moment are Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange (left) and Director of Youth Policy and Programme …

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This is a video of Sugata Mitra, responsible for the original “Hole in the Wall” project in a slum in New Delhi India started in 1999. Mitra outlines the findings from the expansion of the program in India and elsewhere including South Africa. The video talk by Mitra focuses on how children can learn to …

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This 2011 edition of The African Report on Child Well-being is the second in a series of reports published biennially by The African Child Policy Forum as their contribution to putting Africa’s children on the public and political agenda, and to holding African governments accountable to their obligations – to their children. This report explores …

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By Tansy Hoskins Iraq and Afghanistan taught me that I could weep at the suffering of people I’d had never met but until the Egyptian Revolution I did not know that I could dance in the street to celebrate something happening on the other side of the world. The fight to make the world an …

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The crowd that turned out at the Manga Williams Avenue on Friday for this year’s 45th National Youth Day celebration was impressive. Under the theme “Youths and the consolidation of the achievements of the Reunification of Cameroon,” it was an occasion that shall remain indelible in the annals of Limbe. Under the distinguished patronage of …

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A youth solidarity march designed to create oneness and understanding among youths in the country is being planned as part of activities marking the country’s 46th Independence Anniversary. Slated for the 19th of February 2011, the event will be in a form of March past from the July 22nd Square to Arch 22nd, where speeches …

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The Scottish Parliament Presiding Officer (Speaker) Alex Fergusson and pop star Annie Lennox arrived in Malawi for a week- long visit as guests of Malawi Parliament and some projects being funded by the Scottish government. Malawi Parliament Speaker Henry Chimunthu Banda told journalists in the capital Lilongwe on Monday that he and his guest will …

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Zimbabwe has halved its HIV rates from 1997 to 2007 according to a study in British journal Plos. Reuters reported today on the findings: British researchers said Zimbabwe’s epidemic was one of the biggest in the world until the rate of people infected with HIV almost halved, from 29 percent of the population in 1997 to 16 percent …

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Twenty-two young persons were presented with instruments of office, to begin their two-year tenure as Youth Ambassadors for Jamaica, on Tuesday February 8. The Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, assisted by the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, presented the instruments to the Youth Ambassadors, at the ceremony …

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