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1.	UN Youth Flash, Vol. 5, No. 8
	Author: UN Programme on Youth, New York	Date Written: 19 December 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: UN Dept. of Economic & Social Affairs
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.un.org/youth
	Key Words: Global, youth issues and opportunities
	Summary & Comment: The feature article is about youth volunteers as an asset for peace and development with examples from many countries. This year-end issue is full of news, publications, and 2009 events. JDN
2.	Sudan: A Kenyan cirriculum with a Southern Sudanese twist
	Author: IRIN, Kadugli	Date Written: 18 December 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Sudan	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Sudan, Kenya, IDPs, education, conflict
	Summary & Comment: Nosa was one year away from attending secondary school in Khartoum in 2005 when she fled the North-South war. She is now 19 years old and has returned to her home only to be placed in class two. JDN
3.	Kenya: Hiding from the cruellest cut
	Author: IRIN, Nairobi	Date Written: 17 December 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Kenya	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Kenya, FGM, gender issue, human rights
	Summary & Comment: As 342 girls fled their homes and took refuge in church compounds to avoid female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), UNICEF has noted that the girls are a small fraction of the hundreds that do undergo FGM. JN
4.	Karen and Bill Butt write from Mozambique
	Author: Karen and Bill Butt, Quelimane	Date Written: 12 December 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Conselho Cristao de Mocambique; UCC
	Secondary Category: Gender	Source URL:
	Key Words: Mozambique, girls, PEDRA, teacher training,
	Summary & Comment: "On December 5, twelve of the total of 90 bursary girls of the PEDRA program at the Christian Council graduated from their three-year course at the Nicoadala Teacher Training Institute." DN
5.	Toronto French School observes AIDS Day in many ways
	Author: Darnace Torou, Toronto	Date Written: 4 December 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Africafiles
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL: http://www.africafiles.org
	Key Words: Global, Rwanda, HIV/AIDS, youth
	Summary & Comment: Youth attending the Toronto French School are growing in their awareness of HIV/AIDS and hearing directly from those living with the virus. The students raised funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation and helped UNICEF support children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and prevent the spread of the virus. JDN
6.	Central African Republic: State of neglect - displaced children
	Author: IDMC, Geneva	Date Written: 26 November 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL: http://www.imternal-displacement.org
	Key Words: CAR, IDPs, children, violence against children, child soldiers
	Summary & Comment: This executive summary and recommendations are from a report prepared in July and August 2008 by IDMC. The complete 40-page report can also be downloaded. JDN
7.	Are the Dakar Education for All goals slipping away?
	Author: Leila Loupis, Paris	Date Written: 25 November 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: id21 Research Highlight, U of Sussex, UK
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.id21.org
	Key Words: Sub-Saharan Africa, education, gender, poverty
	Summary & Comment: In 2000, a committment to Education for All (EFA) was set in place by 164 countries, and gave hope to those working to increase the right of all children to education. The UNESCO 2009 EFA Global Monitoring Report now concludes there is need for increased resources and immediate action. JDN

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1. Sudan: A Kenyan curriculum with a Southern Sudanese twist
   Nosa Abdalla Anglo, 19, was only a year away from joining a secondary school in Khartoum in 2005, but is still in primary school four years later and worries about her chances of going to high school in 2012. Anglo, a returnee to the state of South K...
2. Kenya: Knowledge and the Kenyan University
   An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education demonstrates that African universities face a crisis in hiring and retaining new Ph.D. holders, many of whom choose to go into industry or NGOs. Fewer than half of University-based academics have doctor...
3. South Africa: OBE education - is the experiment going to work?
   This year is the first that school students – or learners as they are now known - are to matriculate under the new Outcomes Based Educational system. OBE was adopted as one of the first major policy innovations under the newly democratic government i...
4. Global: Low-cost private education
   In recent years developing countries have expanded their government education systems in an attempt to meet the Millennium Development Goals on education by 2015. One consequence has been a dramatic growth in low-cost private education institutions, ...
5. South Africa: COSATU condemns unfair treatment of UKZN academics
   The Congress of South African Trade Unions regrets the resignation of University of KwaZulu-Natal physicist, Professor Nithaya Chetty, who, together with mathematics Professor John van den Berg, was facing disciplinary action and likely dismissal on ...