Education Cluster

KISMAYO (SoOHA) – The posting of female teachers to schools and universities in Kismayo in southern Somalia is helping to encourage girls who dropped out of school to return to the classroom, even after leaving to get married. Ten married female students resumed their education recently following counselling and mentoring …

GAROWE (SOHA) – Over 50,000 new students in Puntland are set to benefit from a European Union-funded programme in the next three years. The 7.3 million Euro Puntland Education Sector Support Programme launched in Garowe Tuesday will see over 56,000 students enrolled in schools within the state adding to over …

KISMAYO (SOHA) – Two schools in the southern Somali town of Kismayo have opened educational facilities for deaf children, for the first time since the fall of the central government in 1991. Jubba and Fanole Primary and Secondary Schools have each allocated two newly built classrooms for deaf students. The …

LAAS AANOOD (SOHA) – Over 20 female university students in Las-Anod town have launched a campaign to help displaced families in Sool region. 150 families displaced by clan conflicts in the region, who have been living without basic needs, have now received food and other aid for the first time …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – Every student in a primary school in Somaliland will be able to access free textbooks thanks to a government initiative to promote universal education and higher standards in schools. Somaliland authorities have been trying to improve the quality of public schools, which are outperformed by private schools. …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – More than 400 children can now resume their education after the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) completed renovation works of a school destroyed in a bomb attack three years ago. Dr Qamar Primary School – established in 2009 in memory of Dr Kamar Aden Ali, a former minister …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – Countries have been challenged to adopt education as a means of managing migration and displacement and offering those in need a second chance. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Assistant Director General for Education Ms.Stefania Gianini said that education is a human right and a …

DADAAB (SOHA) – After four years of hard work in secondary school, Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan, a teenage Somali refugee in northern Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, faces an uncertain future as the results of his exams were declared null and void over alleged cheating. Ahmed sat for his Kenya Certificate of …

KALABAYR(SOHA) – A primary school in northern Somalia’s troubled Sool region has been overwhelmed with students because of an influx of conflict-displaced families into the town. The administration of Kalabayr School in Kalabayr town is trying to implement shift learning owing to its limited capacity. The school had an initial …

WASHINGTON DC(SOHA) – President Trump recently made an excellent move to promote the education of children in developing countries. His administration freed resources already appropriated within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to be given to privately run schools. This will allow for a higher population of genuinely …