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Injustice in the Education System in Somalia: Unveiling the Case of Puntland
BY: ABDULLAHI FARAH MIRE MP, Somalia Federal Parliament, The People's House Social justice in education strives for equity, inclusivity, and critical awareness within the educational system. On paper, the policy priorities of the Somali Ministry of Education, Culture, and Higher Education aim to safeguard access and equity by increasing early childhood education (ECE) and providing free primary education.
Journalist and former refugee wins UNHCR’s Nansen Award for championing refugee education in Kenya
According to UNHCR’s latest education report, more than half of the world’s nearly 15 million school-aged refugee children remain out of formal education. In Dadaab, where over half the population of 370,000 refugees and asylum-seekers are children, only 58 per cent attend schools in the camp due to a shortage of qualified teachers and socio-cultural barriers including early marriage.
Kenya’s Dadaab struggles with new influx of Somalis fleeing drought
Kenya’s Dadaab struggles with new influx of Somalis fleeing drought It saddens me to see that Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya – my former home – is once again becoming overcrowded with people fleeing drought and conflict in neighbouring Somalia, more than 30 years after it was first opened. Over 110,000 Somalis have crossed the border to Kenya in the last two years. I grew up in Dadaab and can relate to the stories of these people fleeing for their lives.
'Butchered': The Kenyan FGM clinic serving Europeans
Nairobi, Kenya - In a "good month", about 100 girls will be brought by their families to Halima Hirsi's* underground clinic in Nairobi to be subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). Families come here from all over the world, willing to pay $150 a time for their daughters to be cut. "The Somali diaspora are good people for my business," says Hirsi, 69, the manager of the clinic, who also carries out procedures.
'I wish I was a boy': The Kenyan girls fighting period poverty
Nairobi, Kenya - For Mary Asigi, a 17-year-old pupil at Damascus primary school in the slums of Dandora on the outskirts of Nairobi, it is usual to miss a few days of school each month because she has no sanitary towels to use when she has her period. "This affects my performance in class," she says. Like many others in her community, Mary's education has already been disrupted by poverty, which is why she is still at primary school at the age of 17.
‘I wish I was a boy’: The Kenyan girls fighting period poverty
Nairobi, Kenya – For Mary Asigi, a 17-year-old pupil at Damascus primary school in the slums of Dandora on the outskirts of Nairobi, it is usual to miss a few days of school each month because she has no sanitary towels to use when she has her period. “This affects my performance in class,” she says.
Victims of al-Shabab school attacks share their stories
Garissa County, Kenya - "I heard the gunshots at 2am on January 7, a day after schools opened for the new academic year," says Safiyo Ali, 50, the headteacher of a primary school close to Kenya's porous border with Somalia. Saretho Primary School had 250 pupils and 10 teachers, nine of whom were from other parts of Kenya. About 200 boys and girls were sleeping in the school when it was attacked. Four pupils, three of whom were siblings, and one teacher were killed.
On International Women’s Day, Rep. Ilhan Omar inspires girls in a refugee camp in Kenya to dream big
Girls watch as a plane lands in Dadaab, Kenya, on Nov. 6, 2017. (Adriane Ohanesian for The Washington Post) March 8 DADAAB, Kenya — Over Somalia’s three decades of nearly nonstop conflict, more than a million refugees have made their way into neighboring Kenya. For four years as a child, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was one of them. For a long time, Dadaab — populated mostly by Somalis — was the largest refugee camp in the world. Today it is smaller but still home to a quarter of a million people.
In a Kenyan refugee camp, Rep. Ilhan Omar sparks dreams, not controversy
Abdullahi Mire and Max Bearak, The Washington Post Published 7:54 am CST, Friday, March 8, 2019 Khairo Hassan's girls watch as their plane lands in Dadaab, Kenya. Khairo Hassan's girls watch as their plane lands in Dadaab, Kenya. Photo: Photo For The Washington Post By Adriane Ohanesian. Photo: Photo For The Washington Post By Adriane Ohanesian. Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Khairo Hassan's girls watch as their plane lands in Dadaab, Kenya.
Wary Somali refugees pack for trip to US ... again
Refugees at the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya that for more than 20 years has been home to generations of Somalis who fled their homeland. By TONY KARUMBA (AFP/File) Dadaab (Kenya) (AFP) - When Aden Bare Farah, 23, first boarded a bus taking him away from the bleak rows of dust-coloured tents where he was born and raised a refugee, there was no looking back.
Wary Somali refugees pack for trip to US ... again
Refugees at the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya that for more than 20 years has been home to generations of Somalis who fled their homeland (AFP Photo/TONY KARUMBA) Dadaab (Kenya) (AFP) - When Aden Bare Farah, 23, first boarded a bus taking him away from the bleak rows of dust-coloured tents where he was born and raised a refugee, there was no looking back.
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