ISLAMABAD (AA) – Depriving girls of secondary education caused a loss of at least $500 million to the Afghan economy in the last 12 months, according to an analysis by the UN’s children fund. UNICEF said keeping girls out of secondary school costs Afghanistan 2.5% of its annual GDP. “If the current cohort of three […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A recent decision by Israeli authorities to demolish a school in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah amounts to “war on Palestinian identity,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Thursday. “We reject the (Israeli) occupation’s decision to demolish the Ein Samia schoo...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Since the Taliban swept back to power in August last year, hundreds of fighters have returned to school — either on their own or pushed by their commanders. The word “Taliban” actually means “students” in Arabic, and the hardline Islamist movement’s name stems from the religious sch...
MARDIN, Turkiye (AA) – The EU will send an additional €530 million ($567 million) as educational assistance for Syrian children in Turkey, the bloc’s top diplomat said on Thursday. The bloc’s cooperation in the education of Syrian children in the Turkish Education System (PIKTES) will last until summer 2025, Nikolaus Meyer-La...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Monday that it is providing over 300,000 children and youths in Nigeria’s volatile northeast who were forced out of their communities and schools following terrorist attacks with access to a special learning program. Paola Ripamonti, UNICEF education manager at it...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army detained seven Palestinian students Tuesday who are studying at Birzeit University in the central occupied West Bank. The Asra Media Office, a Palestinian NGO that documents Israeli arrests, said the students are activists and heads of the Islamic Bloc, the Hamas group’s students’ w...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of two French nationals for stoking unrest by participating in teacher protests. Iran’s state broadcaster showed a film about the duo’s arrest by intelligence sleuths and their activities in Iran, calling them “spies.” The pair were identified as Cecile Kohler, 37...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN has urged the Taliban to fulfill their pledge of inclusivity and reconciliation in the war-torn country. Deborah Lyons, the UN chief’s special envoy for Afghanistan, met acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul on Tuesday, where she discussed several pressing issues such as women’s rights, including their acces...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye on Sunday condemned an attack in Afghanistan against a staff member of a primary school run by Turkish Maarif Foundation. “We strongly condemn this heinous attack targeting an official of Turkish Maarif Schools which have significant contributions to education in Afghanistan and hope that the perpetrators are ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least four people, including three Chinese nationals, were killed as an explosion ripped through a van at a university in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi on Tuesday, police said. The explosion targeted the vehicle near the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language learning cen...
