August

8 Articles

Editorial
Kenya

Youth locked out of political leadership

Kenya's political landscape is reeling from the generation gap as older generations hold on tightly to political leadership at the expense of the energetic and more adventurous young generation.

Fred Oluoch
Swaziland

Young people resort to abstinence

In a country with the world’s highest HIV prevalence rate, young people are leading the call for total sexual abstinence as the only certain way to avoid AIDS.

James Hall
Malawi

Young democrats or mercenaries?

The young democrats, a youth wing of the ruling United Democratic Front [UDF] has been used by previous regimes to unleash violence on political opponents and human rights activists.

Charles Banda
Zimbabwe

Youth programme stirs controversy

The National youth training programme is becoming inexorably controversial following allegations that it is being used to harass opposition sympathizers.

Rodrick Mukumbira
Clippings
War and Peace
Action and contacts

New media training kit goes online

UNESCO in collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) has launched a workshop-ready training kit "Education Makes News" for writing and reporting on Education for All (EFA), an international initiative to achieve education for all by 2015

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