Category: Education

The govenment of Cameroon, together with the Cameroon Baptist Convention health services say they are determined to make education available for all children living with disabilities.

“We are trying to teach teachers to have inclusive skills so they can attend to both children with disabilities and those without. We have equally donated equipments to the GCE board and to other schools,” Prof Tih Pius Mofe, Director of the CBC health service says.

“We have to think about putting in place strategies that will really transform our educational system. We have about 70 schools for inclusive education and we are working together with the Cameroon Baptist health service to give these children living with disabilities a chance at education just like other children,” Pauline Irene Nguene, Minister of social affairs adds.

“I have noticed that most of these children with disabilities are extremely smart and brilliant. We are calling on parents with children having disabilities to send their kids to school. We are trying our best to ensure that they become something in the society and are not forced to stay back at home while others get trained. It is not their making they were born the way they are. We love them too and want the best for them. I have a child with disability and I love him even three times more than the others. I make him feel extremely special. They need it. They get easily traumatized when they see other children doing what they cannot do,” Sophie Njie a CBC worker and a parent explains.

A campaign has been launched by the Ministry of Social Affairs together with the Cameroon Baptist Convention health services to step up the education of children with these disabilities. This campaign was launched in Yaounde this May 05, 2023. The Minister of social affairs, Pauline Irene Nguene says it is time to move from policy to action. She also urged every parent to send their disabled child to school or let them acquire skills.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

Two teachers died on Saturday night when their vehicles crashed into each other, while three passengers are in critical condition at Andara District Hospital in Kavango East Region’s Mukwe Constituency.

The Namibian Police Force in the region confirmed this in its weekend crime report issued on Sunday.

It is alleged that the two teachers, identified as Richard Thitaka, 30, from Diyogha village in Kavango East and Robert Liyali, 58, from Impalila Island in the Zambezi Region, lost their lives at Mwenge village, 30km west from Divundu on the B8 road of the Trans-Caprivi Highway.

According to the police report, the two teachers, who were the drivers of the respective vehicles, were approaching from different directions before the head-on collision happened.

The two teachers are said to be friends who both taught at Andara Combined School.

They reportedly called each other to meet up at Mbapuka village to celebrate the birthday of a friend who was also a passenger in one of the vehicles.

One of the cars was driving from the west to eastern direction while the other was driving from east to west.

The police explain that one vehicle upon approaching the other had its lights on bright mode, making it difficult for the other motorist to have a full view of the road ahead of him.

Due to that bright light, one of the drivers allegedly lost control of his vehicle causing the head-on collision that claimed both drivers’ lives on the spot.

The three passengers who were all in one vehicle where rushed to Andara District Hospital with serious injuries.

The next of kin of the two deceased teachers have been informed and investigations continue.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency

A total of 14 delegations comprising ministers and officials from Zambia, Niger, Tanzania and Cote d’Ivoire arrived in Addis Ababa to conduct a study tour in Ethiopia.

The delegation was warmly welcomed at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport by senior government officials.

The tour is organized to exchange the encouraging experiences of Ethiopia in transforming agriculture, particularly wheat, avocado, and coffee developments in Ethiopia.

During its four day tour in Ethioipia, the delegation is expected to visit various agricultural development activities in Oromia region.

Advisor to Oromia Chief Administrator Yared Teshome told ENA that African countries can learn from Ethiopia’s experiences in ensuring food security.

Yared revealed that the region has been working on 37 different initiatives. Of those, the delegated will visit the wheat, avocado and coffee initiatives.

“We do have a lot of best practices and now our African brothers are coming here to share our experiences. This is a basic thing for our strategic objective that African problems should be solved by sons and daughters of Africa,” he stressed.

The success in wheat production is more exemplary to our African brothers; and avocado, the new initiative, is the other successful endeavor being realized in the regional state, he elaborated.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

University of Namibia (UNAM) Football Club coach Ronnie Kanalelo says despite losing two games in a row over a space of a week, his team is not going to panic.

The Clever Boys as the university team is known by its supporters, lost its rounds 25 and 26 fixtures in the 2022/23 Debmarine Namibia Premiership to Citizens and Tigers respectively. UNAM finds themselves fifth on the log standing of 16 teams with 40 points.

Kanalelo told Nampa on Friday that in their previous campaigns, they had 44 points which they want to surpass this season.

“There are still four games remaining in the league. We are targeting a spot in the top five. We want to get further than the 44 points we had in the Premier League,” he said.

The coach added that despite setting a goal to finish with more points the technical team is not going to put pressure on their players.

“If we start looking at the position that we want to be in we will then start losing focus. We have a squad of young players who just played their first Premier League season, and therefore we are not going to ask too much from these young players as they have given it their all week in and week out,” Kanalelo said.

He also stated that his wish is to have all these young players form part of the UNAM squad next season so they can have a better idea of challenging for top honours.

“The position that we are in is something that the players have to be proud of. As a coach, I did not expect to challenge for the title due to the quality of the players that we have. Most of our players made their debut season in the Premier League and lacked experience at this level but come next season, if this team is still together, I am hopeful we will do better,” he said.

UNAM is scheduled to play Orlando Pirates who are 10th on the log standing with 30 points on Sunday, at the Sport Klub Windhoek stadium at 16h00.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency

As pupils, students and teachers all over the national territory enter week one of the third and last term in serenity, those of Government Bilingual Primary School Bafemgha in Bamessingue, Mbouda subdivision in the West region begin the term with trauma. The school yard they left intact two weeks ago, has been completely transformed.

Heavy rains during the Easter holiday period, completely destroyed some classrooms in the school including the Head teacher’s office. This situation has led to overcrowding in the classrooms as pupils are obliged to squeeze up in the few classrooms available.

Head teacher Mafofou Fopa Leonette says this has a negative impact on the learning process of the children.

“We are obliged to divide a classroom into three of two for others to catch-up. It negatively impacts those who were directly affected with the destruction because they find themselves now in a new environment and our children become frustrated in such a situation. More to that, the examination period is fast approaching. Class 6 pupils who are preparing for the common entrance and First School Leaving Certificates are really touched.”

The Head teacher was also directly affected by the holiday rains as her office was completely wiped out.

“As you can see I’m obliged to make tours in classrooms throughout the day because I have no office for the moment. This frustrates teachers who think I’m there to always inspect them. Teachers have to be free at a certain level for lessons to be fluent.”

She pleads on competent authorities to come to their rescue.

“I thank the elites and competent authorities for the efforts. I pray they speed up the process for exams are fast approaching.”

Municipal Councillors in Mbouda subdivision recently raised the sum of F CFA 1 500 000 to begin the construction of new classrooms that will go operational during the next academic year.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

Courage Nanevie, a United States of America (USA)-based Ghanaian Table Tennis Coach is to establish an academy in Accra to help train young boys and girls in the game to develop their talents.

He would again tour all the 16 regions in the country and provide the necessary equipment to young and coming table tennis stars.

Nanevie, who was also a former table tennis top seed, disclosed this to the GNA Sports in an interview in Accra on Monday.

He said he would also ensure other regions also benefit from the project by opening similar academies in other regions as part of his contribution towards the development of the sport in the country.

The table tennis coach said ‘the game entails a lot of physical and mental activities and therefore I want the young talents to get accustomed to the important rudiments of the sport to become successful’.

Nanevie said for the love of the game, he had instituted the annual ‘Team Courage Open Table Tennis Championship’ to whip up enthusiasm of the game.

‘I have instituted the Team Courage Championship which is competed for annually to generate of the game among the young budding stars’, he said,

‘All things being equal I would come out with many competitions in the coming years as my personal contributions to Table Tennis development in the country’ Nanevie added.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Academic work at the Ayinasu Ahmadiyya Basic School in the Ashanti Region is being threatened due to the dilapidated nature of the mud and wooden structure serving as a classroom block.

This is not only preventing the pupils from attending school regularly but also making it difficult for teachers to accept postings to the school, located in the Ejura-Skyeredumasi Municipality.

Mr Sulley Mohammed, the Assemblyman for Ayinasu East Electoral Area, told the Ghana News Agency during a visit to the community that the poor nature of the school structure was a serious threat to both pupils and teachers.

He said the people constructed the structure many years ago and had not seen any rehabilitation, adding that an appeal for assistance had not been forthcoming.

‘For the children, they are doing their best and the teachers are doing all they can to ensure smooth teaching and learning,’ he told the GNA.

‘The structure is very bad, but it is because of the children that’s why the teachers are still here in this threatening environment.’

Mr Mohammed said at times the teachers and the pupils had to go and cut trees from the bush to support the structures from collapsing.

He called on non-governmental organisations, individuals and philanthropists to help rehabilitate the school to provide quality education to the pupils.

Mr Abdul Hamidu Tahilu, the Chief of Ayinasu Zongo, said members of the community were worried over the poor nature of the school and called for support to make it functional.

He complained about the inadequate furniture for the pupils, which led to some of them having to sit on the bare floor to read and write.

Source: Ghana News Agency