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Policies on Free Primary and Secondary Education in East Africa:
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are among the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa which have
recently implemented policies for free primary education, motivated in part by renewed
democratic accountability following the re-emergence of multi-party politics in the 1990s.
However, it is not the first time that the goal of expanding primary education has been
pursued by these three neighbouring countries which have much in common.
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Nomadic Schools for Mobile Girls. GARISSA, Kenya, Oct 29 (IPS) - Five years after the introduction of free primary education (FPE) in Kenya, the enrolment of girls in schools continues to lag behind in Garissa, in Kenya's North Eastern region.
Most communities living in the North Eastern region are nomadic and semi-nomadic, and depend on livestock for their livelihood.
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UNICEF urges action to tackle Zimbabwe’s education ‘crisis’. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for urgent action to address Zimbabwe’s education system – once the best in Africa – which is suffering due to a combination of low salaries, poor attendance by both teachers and students, and transport and food problems.
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