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December 20, 2024 (OTTAWA) - International donors have voiced strong concerns over Sudan's plan to hold national examinations exclusively in areas controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) later this month, citing significant risks to student safety amid the ongoing conflict. Weeks before the outbreak of war in Sudan in mid-April 2023, more than 570,000 students were preparing to sit for the secondary school exams, equivalent to high school exams and a key requirement for university admission. They remained in limbo for 19 months until the Ministry of Education set December 28th as the date for their commencement. Students from the 2024 cohort will also take the exams in March 2025, and those who could not take the exam are scheduled for later this month. The exams will be held in centres inside and outside the country. About three weeks before the December 28th date, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) decided to prevent students in areas under their control, especially in Darfur, from going to exam centres in safer cities. This decision has further complicated the already challenging situation for students. In response, the Teachers' Committee called for a truce and temporary safe passages during the exam period, a move …
The post Donors express concern over Sudan exam plan amid conflict appeared first on Sudan Tribune.
Abiy's government and the regional one run by the Tigray People's Liberation Front each consider the other illegitimate.
\t There was no immediate word from the three AU envoys, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo did not say whether they can meet with TPLF leaders, something Abiy's office has rejected.
\"``Not possible,'' senior Ethiopian official Redwan Hussein said in a message to the AP. ``\"Above all, TPLF leadership is still at large.'' He called reports that the TPLF had appointed an envoy to discuss an immediate cease-fire with the international community ``masquerading.''
\t Fighting reportedly remained well outside the Tigray capital of Mekele, a densely populated city of a half-million people who have been warned by the Ethiopian government that they will be shown ``no mercy'' if they don't distance themselves from the region's leaders.
\t Tigray has been almost entirely cut off from the outside world since Nov. 4, when Abiy announced a military offensive in response to a TPLF attack on a federal army base.
That makes it difficult to verify claims about the fighting, but humanitarians have said at least hundreds of people have been killed.
\t The fighting threatens to destabilize Ethiopia, which has been described as the linchpin of the strategic Horn of Africa.
\t With transport links cut, food and other supplies are running out in Tigray, home to 6 million people, and the United Nations has asked for immediate and unimpeded access for aid.
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TAMPA BAY - The University of South Florida has expanded a program that guarantees admission to any of its three campuses to students who attend local high schools that serve historically underrepresented families. Through the Guaranteed Admissions Pathway Program, or GAPP, students at 17 Title 1 high schools within USF's geographical footprint can secure their […]
These twin sisters graduated as valedictorian and salutatorian from their high school. Now they're celebrating another milestone together - graduating at the top of their class for their doctoral program.
An immense portrait of a child in Yorkshire England aims to highlight the plight of children in war-torn Yemen.
The project is the work of a group of artists known as ‘’Sand In Your Eye’’ in the United Kingdom.
\"We watched the report and the report was telling us how children in the Yemen were really under pressure from climate change and war, but then COVID-19 and it was disrupting food supplies and medication as well. And so we looked into it a little bit further. And then UNICEF said that 6,000 children could pass away every single day because of this, these same reasons\", Jamie Wardley, sand artist and founder of Sand In Your Eye said.
The portrait is made up of 6,000 real-sized figures of playing children, symbolizing the 6,000 that UNICEF warned could die each day because of Yemen’s dire situation.
\"You know, you can't look at a child who is really, really poorly and not be affected by it, and then I think art also helps to visualize, make visual representations of things that are quite difficult to understand. And so behind me on my screen, I've got the images that we drew\", he added.
According to a recent report by UNICEF, millions of children could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the country, amid a fall in global aid.
Yemen's poor healthcare infrastructure is unprepared to battle the pandemic after five years of war between a Saudi-led military coalition and Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
PGCPS will host free immunization clinics in high school wellness centers to assist families with meeting immunization requirements.
Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, President of Saint Augustine University in Raleigh, North Carolina has died due to the COVID-19 virus.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to the Public School Forum of North Carolina, 72 percent of Black and Brown students in the state’s public schools have parents who lack secure employment, compared with 21 percent of white students. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Students, teachers, parents, and administrators face ever-rising challenges […]
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