Corona Voice Angola. The tok show with Sofonie Dala. Don't miss it! Day 11

 Our coronavirus show is ongoing. Day 11

During the early stages of the pandemic, when the nature of the coronavirus was still unknown, many schools and universities made the decision to temporarily avoid all in-person contact and close their campuses completely. However, examinations are a critical part of the educational process and a necessary step in providing students with accurate grades.

Students across Angola are already writing their exams. Unfortunately, many students claim to face difficulties while writing exams during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our today's guest is Edvania, she will share with us how the Covid-19 pandemic affected her academic life.

My name is Edvania Teixeira, I am 16 years old and I study in the 7th grade in this school complex that is behind me. I'm going to talk a little bit about the coronavirus, the disease that shook the whole country.

How has covid-19 affected your academic life?

It was very difficult to spend all these months at home without studying. The quarantine was very hard, the only thing I did was to check my notebooks, spend the whole day at home with the parents who were also forbidden to go out, it was very boring!

When the school reopened my mother said that I would only go back to school only if they had created all the necessary conditions to protect students from the disease.

Fortunately, school created all the necessary conditions to prevent students from getting sick. My school has been instructing us to comply with the preventive measures against Covid-19 such as: hand washing, the distance of 1 meter, the use of masks and always cleaning hands with alcohol gel. And teachers have also been following the preventive measures, whereas in many schools teachers do not obey the prevention rules against covid-19.

How is your academic performance in this  post covid-19 phase?

My academic performance is fine.

How are the exams going?

I did my exams more or less, because we wrote the tests in two consecutive weeks without a break. It was very difficult.

What are the difficulties you faced?

Math. The questions were very difficult, including some tasks that came out in the tests we never studied before. For this reason the exams have become super difficult.

Did you forget anything you learned in the beginning of the year?

No, not everything was forgotten.

How do you feel, aren't you afraid of getting coronavirus?

I'm scared, but I always carry with me bio-security material.

Did the school distribute any biosafety material?

No, they didn't distribute anything.

With the status of the coronavirus pandemic constantly evolving, schools must allow for some flexibility when it comes to conducting school exams. There must be a degree of flexibility to this demand, given the unpredictability of the coronavirus and its effect on the lives of students. If schools don’t allow for some degree of flexibility when rescheduling exams, the academic performance of students who find themselves in difficult circumstances as a result of the pandemic is likely to suffer.

This is the first and the only Coronavirus show in Angola where the most ordinary citizens show their brilliant talents.

The heroes of the program are the most ordinary citizens - they share with the audience their songs, poems and real stories of how the Coronavirus pandemic affected their lives.

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2021 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Prize for Education ($500,000 Prize)

 Application Deadline: 1 February 2021 

Established in 2011 by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the WISE Prize for Education is the first distinction of its kind to recognize an individual or a team for an outstanding, world-class contribution to education. The WISE Prize for Education raises the status of education by giving it similar prestige to other areas for which international prizes exist –such as literature, peace, and economics.

The WISE Prize for Education Laureate, announced at the global biennial summit’s Opening Plenary Session, receives the WISE Prize medal and $500,000 (US).

The WISE Prize for Education Laureates are inspiring role models for all those concerned with building the future of education as the foundation for a more secure, prosperous, and sustainable world. To learn more about the previous WISE Prize laureates please visit Laureates by year page.

Benefits

The Laureate(s) will receive US $ 500,000 cash prize dedicated to continuing their work in education, and a medal.

Click here to apply: https://bit.ly/2W3SkAb

Seedstars/Shell Foundation: Energy, Mobility and Agriculture Innovation program 2020 for early-stage startups.

 Application Deadline: December 20th 2020 

Seedstars and Shell Foundation have joined forces to look for sustainable, scalable and innovative working towards access to energy, sustainable agriculture* and mobility. The objective of this program is to support, catalyse and train early-stage (seed) tech startups addressing challenges related to access to energy (household energy, energy for business, energy nexus), sustainable agriculture (value chain innovations improving access to finance, technology, market or knowledge) or sustainable mobility (safe rural and last-mile mobility for people and goods) in Africa.

Requirements

The startup must have an existing solution with less than 4 years of existence (average 2 y.o.)
Must act within the following sectors: Mobility, Transportation, Energy, & Agriculture*
Must be an early-stage startup (seed stage with a MVP - minimum viable product)
Must have operations based in Africa
Must show initial traction and/or be generating revenue
Have raised less than $1M USD in investment to date

Benefits

Selected Startups will receive

Access to a 3-month investment-readiness program that includes:

✔ Investment-readiness training.

✔ Group mentoring based on sector.

✔ 1on1 mentoring with a dedicated expert that has been selected based on individual startup needs.

✔ Identification by the Shell Foundation for potential funding opportunities.

✔ Leverage of the human resources and knowledge available within the pro-bono network of the Shell Foundation.

Click here to apply: https://bit.ly/2K9qsrL

Baker Hughes Ignite 12 month Graduate Internship Program 2021 for young Africans

 Application Deadline: unspecified 

The Baker Hughes Internship is designed to enable undergraduates who have completed a Bachelor’s or are completing a Master’s degree to gain hands-on work experience as the foundation of their professional lives. The internships will give you first-hand insights into the processes, systems and practices that are aligned to ensure customer needs are met through flawless execution and the application of leading-edge technology.

Internship will provide you with the opportunity to become familiar with Health, Safety and Environment (HS&E). You'll participate in technically focused training, team meetings and work on projects and present your results. During your internship you will be supported by a buddy and your manager who will ensure that you have a valuable learning experience.

Receiving coaching and mentoring to enable you to complete assignments and projects to develop your learning and skillset

Completing internal projects to deliver customer outcomes and identify business improvements

Learning internal software to assist with the completion of projects and tasks

Collaborating with cross-functional teams and interns to interact and network with global business leaders

Applying Health, Safety and Environment (HS&E) standards and procedures in all situations to ensure compliance is maintained.

Click here to apply: https://bit.ly/3oGXuOT

The Sigma Awards 2021 for Data Journalists worldwide (US$5,000 cash prize)

 Application Deadline: February 1st, 2021

The Sigma Awards is a competition to celebrate the best data journalism from around the world. Striding into its second year, it’s also here to empower, elevate and enlighten the global community of data journalists.

The international data journalism community is facing many challenges, and we want to support them. This year’s Sigma Awards will be about highlighting the very best data journalism done about the pandemic (and building an international database record of such projects), but also those covering other topics such as politics, sports, or the environment.

Entries must be for work published in calendar year 2020.

Entries should be submitted via our online form.

Entries must be received by February 1st, 2021 at 11:59 pm ET, to qualify.

Applicants can enter as many projects as they want to the competition.

Benefits

A $ 5,000 cash prize will be split amongst the winners. The latter will also get a certificate and speaking opportunities in our online events

Click here to apply:  https://bit.ly/34dxMtI

SIC ARRESTS SECRETARY-GENERAL OF LUNDA SUL GOVERNMENT

 The Secretary General of the Government of Lunda Sul province, Nelson Wilson Daniel was arrested Friday by the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) on charges of embezzlement.

The accused, who is on remand custody, is also charged with crimes of abuse of power, influence peddling, violation of budget implementing rules, money laundering, among others.

In a statement to the press, the public prosecutor in Lunda Sul, Liliana Camuamba, explained that the accused had allegedly committed the crimes while acting as municipal administrator of Cacolo.

The magistrate said that after questioning he had been remanded in custody under the Law on Precautionary Measures in Criminal Procedure (Law No 25/15 of 18 September).

QATAR AIRWAYS STARTS OPERATIONS IN ANGOLA

 Asian airline Qatar Airways starts Monday Doha (Qatar) / Luanda / Doha flights, with the inaugural one scheduled to arrive at 9:50 am at Luanda’s 4 de Fevereiro International Airport.

Boeing 787 Dream liner, with 254 seats, 22 of which business class and 232 economy class, features the inaugural route.

According to a press release from the company, reached Angop, the company will operate on a weekly flight, on Monday.

Qatar Airways adopts Angola as its destination for the first time, since its foundation.

The governments of Angola and Qatar signed in September 2019 six bilateral cooperation agreements in various fields, as part of the two countries cooperation.

The deals were signed during the visit of the Angolan President, João Lourenço, to Qatar.

Among the signed agreements, stress went to the fields of transport, which provides for the establishment of air connections between the capitals of the two countries, maritime and port, technical, commercial and economic cooperation and the protocols for the exemption of visas in diplomatic passports and political consultations at bilateral level.

Qatar Airways, the flagship airline of Qatar, flies to 151 destinations, from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, Africa, Asia and South America.

It is one of six companies to have Skytrax's prestigious five stars for their excellent service.

COVID-19: ANGOLA RECORDS 57 RECOVERIES, 27 NEW CASES

 Angolan health authorities announced on Sunday the report in the last 24 hours, of 57 patients recovered from Covid-19, 27 new infections and five deaths.

According to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, who was speaking at the country usual update session for Covid-19, of those recovered 49 are from Namibe, six from Lunda Sul and two from Luanda, aged between two and 71 years old.

As for the new positive cases, he pointed out that they involve citizens aged between nine and 78, 17 males and 10 females.

According to him, 20 cases were diagnosed in Luanda province, three in Cunene, two in Moxico, one in Huambo and the same number in Zaire.

He noted that the deaths were four Angolan citizens and one Mauritanian, aged between 39 and 56, two residents of Moxico, two in Namibe and one in Lunda Sul, three males and two females.

Angola has 16,188 positive cases, 371 deaths, 8,898 recovered and 6,919 active cases.

Of the active people, six are in critical condition with invasive mechanical ventilation, seven severe, 78 moderate and 6,689 with mild symptoms.

Health authorities follow up 231 patients admitted to treatment centers in the country.

Niger holds city, regional vote after armed group attack kills 27

 Governing Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism is seen as the overwhelming favorite in the municipal and regional polls.

Nigerien voters have cast ballots in municipal and regional elections, the day after an attack by the Boko Haram armed group killed dozens of people, according to local officials.

A senior local official was quoted as saying by AFP news agency that Saturday’s attack left 27 dead and was of “unprecedented savagery”, with dozens of assailants laying to waste 60 percent of the town of Toumour, burning down up to 1,000 homes and the central market.

Issa Lemine, governor of the southeastern region of Diffa, went to Toumour to attend the victims’ burials on Sunday.

The Diffa region is home to 120,000 refugees from neighboring Nigeria – where Boko Haram launched a bloody campaign of violence in 2009 – as well as 110,000 people internally displaced within Niger, according to the UN.

An official of the Bosso region that includes Toumour said the elections did not go ahead there on Sunday. The vote had been postponed repeatedly because of attacks in many parts of the country.

Some 7.4 million people are eligible to vote in the polls across 266 municipalities on Sunday. Voting was due to end at 6 pm (17:00 GMT).

The governing Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS) is the overwhelming favorite in Sunday’s elections, held two weeks before a landmark presidential vote.

The PNDS’ presidential candidate, 60-year-old Mohamed Bazoum, is the runaway frontrunner in the December 27 ballot, which should mark the first peaceful transfer of power in the country.

Incumbent President Mahamadou Issoufou, 68, will not contest that election because his two terms are up. First elected in 2011 and then again in 2016, Issoufou has won praise for his decision to step aside for a successor, unlike other presidents – including in West Africa – who have pushed through constitutional changes in order to extend their presidencies.

Bazoum, a former interior and foreign minister under Issoufou, is among 30 candidates in the race.

Last month, Niger’s constitutional court blocked main opposition leader Hama Amadou, 70, from running over a 2017 conviction for baby-smuggling, a case he claimed was politically motivated.

Fighters with links to al-Qaeda and the ISIL (ISIS) group have increasingly mounted attacks across West Africa’s Sahel region in recent years despite the presence of thousands of regional and foreign troops. Thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes.

The violence has hit Mali and Burkina Faso the hardest, rendering large swathes of those countries ungovernable, but it has also spilled into western Niger, which shares long and porous borders with its two neighbors.

Niger has also endured unrest in its southeast from Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West Africa Province armed group, a breakaway group from Boko Haram.

US adopts map of Morocco that includes disputed Western Sahara

 The United States has adopted a “new official” map of Morocco that includes the disputed territory of Western Sahara, its ambassador to Rabat said.

“This map is a tangible representation of President Trump’s bold proclamation two days ago - recognizing Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara,” Ambassador David Fischer said on Saturday, according to a statement seen by AFP news agency.

He signed the “new official US government map of the kingdom of Morocco” at a ceremony in the US embassy in the capital, Rabat, adding that the map would be presented to Morocco’s King Mohammed VI.

Western Sahara is a disputed and divided former Spanish colony, mostly under Morocco’s control, where tensions with the pro-independence Polisario Front have simmered since the 1970s.

Morocco on Thursday became the fourth Arab state this year, after the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan, to announce it had agreed to normalise relations with Israel.

US President Donald Trump, in turn, backed Morocco’s contested sovereignty over Western Sahara, something Morocco has spent decades trying to gain support for.

‘Foreign manoeuvres’

Western Sahara has been on the United Nations’ list of non-self-governing territories, a stance also taken by the African Union, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the European Union.

The region is home to some 500,000 people, most of whom live in the capital, Laayoune.

The Polisario Front condemned “in the strongest terms the fact that outgoing American President Donald Trump attributes to Morocco something which does not belong” to the country.

The movement dismissed the announcement and vowed to fight on until Moroccan forces withdraw from all of Western Sahara.

Last month, the Polisario announced that it regarded a 1991 ceasefire as over after Morocco sent troops into a UN-patrolled buffer zone to reopen the road to neighbouring Mauritania – Morocco’s sole land link to sub-Saharan Africa.

The Front has since claimed that repeated exchanges of fire have taken place along the 2,700-km (1,700-mile) sand barrier that separates the two sides.

The prime minister of Algeria – Morocco’s neighbour and regional rival, as well as the key foreign backer of the Polisario Front – on Saturday criticised “foreign manoeuvres” that he said aimed to “destabilise Algeria”.

“There is now a desire by the Zionist entity to come closer to our borders,” Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad said, in reference to Israel.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), which Polisario leaders proclaimed in 1976, is a member of the African Union but controls just 20 percent of the territory, mostly empty desert.

The territory’s main sources of revenue – its phosphate deposits and rich Atlantic fisheries – are all in Moroccan hands.

SOURCE : AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

COVID-19 exposes need for radical policies to tackle inequality

 In the run-up to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris taking office on January 20, a key debate raging now is about what kind of change they will usher in. Some say it is clear from those two leaders ’biographies that they herald the bold transformations needed to tackle the inequalities that scar society. Others say it is clear from their biographies that they will not. History suggests, however, that neither of those arguments gets it quite right. That key to what happens is what we do, together.

For my new book, How to Fight Inequality, I looked at what we could learn from how inequality had been tackled in the past. What I found, across the world, was that progress in tackling inequality was never simply gifted by political leaders. It was won through people power.

That we cannot rely on political leaders to bring change for us is not because policymakers are venal and uncaring. Indeed, far too much time is lost, when we could be organizing, by first trying to work out if people in power are personally nice or not nice - as if that is what determines whether or not we need to organize. Rather, the point is having good policymakers is not enough to shift inequality - there are too many pressures on them from the interests at the top, which need a countervailing pressure from below. Remember the story of President Lyndon Johnson telling Martin Luther King: “I know what I have to do, but you have to make me do it.”

The famous progressive policies enacted in the US from the 1930s to the 1970s would not have come about without a powerful combination of pressures from below. They were won by trade unions, Black organizations, churches and other progressive grassroots groups together devoting their energies, in Dr King’s words, “to organize our strength into compelling power so that government cannot elude our demands.”

In the Venn diagram of the movements are people like African American trade union organizer Philip Randolph, who successfully pressured both the Franklin D Roosevelt and the Kennedy-Johnson governments by reminding them of the power of organized people - without which we would not remember them as such reforming presidents.

And more important even than the famous movement figureheads were the huge numbers of movement organizers. As civil rights activist Diane Nash noted: “It took many thousands of people to make the changes that we made, people whose names we’ll never know. They’ll never get credit for the sacrifices they’ve made, but I remember them. ”

Trade unions were key. Unionisation does not change wage levels in firms, it changes power and therefore policy in nations. Indeed, high rates of tax on the superrich, and relatively high investment in public services to benefit people, were maintained in this period under both Democrat and Republican presidents. In a fascinating reversal of that, by the 1990s, when far fewer people were organized in unions, both Democrat and Republican parties pursued economic approaches that were in many respects less progressive than either had pursued in the 1950s and 1960s.

So whether Biden and Harris will preside over radical shifts that the COVID-19 crisis has shown to be key is not only, or even mainly, up to them. It is up to us.

The election was not the end of the process, but only one part of it. If the US - and other nations - are really to turn the corner on inequality, it will be through the swarming of what Reverend William Barber calls “Fusion Coalitions”: When people come together in ever larger numbers in connected movements to ensure that their wages go up, their healthcare is provided, and they are not burdened by debt; to at last break the hold of white supremacism and structural violence; and to win a Green New Deal to protect their environment, provide quality public transport and create millions of jobs. It is not just that these are worth fighting for - it is that only through millions of people fighting for them that will they be won.

No one saves others; people standing together is how they liberate themselves. It can be slow and it is always complicated and it sometimes fails - but it is the only way it works. King, when asked why he needed to organize rather than focus only on persuasion, replied: “We have not made a single gain without determined pressure.”

So as we look forward to the removal van entering the White House, let us all breathe a welcome sigh of relief, but then, recalling history, let us remember this: Hope is not above us - it is around us.

 

Ben Phillips

Brexit: Sunday deadline looms as UK, EU hope for breakthrough

 European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are set to hold a telephone call in a last-minute effort to break the deadlock over a post-Brexit trade deal.

A statement by the two leaders is expected around 12:30 GMT on Sunday, according to British media reports.

Meanwhile, EU sources told Reuters news agency that European Union and United Kingdom negotiators have made some progress on narrowing their differences in trade talks, but there has been no decisive breakthrough on fair competition or fishing rights.

“They are making inroads on some difficult stuff. How to manage divergence and soften the blow for [EU] fishermen is still open,” an EU diplomat said.

Earlier on Sunday, Britain’s main negotiator David Frost held talks with his EU counterpart Michel Barnier at the European Commission building in Brussels.

Britain left the EU on January 31, but remains in its economic structures until a transition period ends on December 31. However, tensions regarding arrangements that would guarantee Britain zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the EU’s single market are rising.

A no-deal split would bring overnight tariffs and other barriers that would hurt both sides, although most economists think the smaller British economy would take a greater hit because the United Kingdom does almost half of its trade with the bloc.

Al Jazeera’s Paul Brennan said there are no expectations for a firm day today. “The expectation is that it will go one of two ways,” he said, speaking from Brussels.

“It will either be a no-deal, that the two leaders will agree they frankly reached the end of the road and that they are too far apart. The other possibility is that they will agree that there is still a glimmer of light and they will carry on talking.”

‘Long way to go’

Whether it’s a negotiating ploy or not, Johnson has publicly said the UK would still thrive mightily if there is no deal and it was “very, very likely” that negotiations on a new relationship that will take effect on January 1 will fail.

Speaking to Britain’s Sky News on Sunday, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said a no-deal Brexit could still be avoided if the EU accepts Britain’s right to be treated like “any other independent self-respecting democracy.”

“What really matters is what the EU is willing at a political level to commit to,” Raab said. “There is still I think a long way to go.”

Meanwhile, Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin, whose economy is more entwined with Britain’s than any other EU state, said he “fervently” hoped the talks wouldn’t end on Sunday.

“It is absolutely imperative that both sides continue to engage and both sides continue to negotiate to avoid a no-deal,” Martin told the BBC. “A no-deal would be very bad for all of us.

 

UK gov’t’s optimism not shared by others

Speaking from Westminster, Al Jazeera’s Babara Serra said the situation in the UK is tense, with some newspapers putting the chance of a no-deal Brexit at 80 percent.

“Overnight the country released contingency plans saying they will spend around $5bn trying ease the little bit of congestion that could come from a no-deal Brexit,” Serra said.

“Certainly the government is trying to sound upbeat. They’ve said they have prepared for all of the possible worst-case scenarios and that the UK is ready.”

However, Serra said that optimism is not shared by a lot of people.

“Supermarkets are worried,” she explained. “Food producers have said there could be a shortage of vegetables for the next three months so supermarkets should stockpile, and of course there are fears that that could cause some panic-buying here in the UK.”

On Saturday, Britain took the dramatic step of announcing that armed naval vessels will patrol its waters from January 1 to exclude European crews from the fisheries they have shared, in some cases for centuries.

Brussels’ tone has been less bellicose, and von der Leyen has made it clear the EU will respect UK’s sovereignty after Britain’s post-Brexit transition period, but neither side is yet ready to compromise on its core principles

Without a trade deal, cross-Channel trade will revert to the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, with tariffs driving up prices and generating paperwork for importers.

A failed negotiation may poison relations between London and Brussels for years to come.

SOURCE : AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

Parents appeal to Nigeria gov’t to rescue kidnapped students

 Parents and family members have gathered on a secondary boarding school in Kankara, in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state, issuing a plea to authorities to bring to safety hundreds of students believed to have been seized by gunmen.

Security forces had exchanged fire with a gang that took the students from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, a spokesman for the president said on Saturday night, but parents on Sunday said they had heard little more on the fate of their children .

Murja Mohammed, whose son was taken, begged authorities for help.

“If it’s not government that will help us, we have no power to rescue our children,” she told Reuters news agency.

Parents gather during a meeting at the Government Science school after gunmen abducted students from it, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina state, Nigeria [Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters]

Abubakar Lawal came from Zaria, a city 120km (75 miles) south of Kankara, after learning that two of his three sons at the school were among the missing.“From yesterday I was here, praying that the almighty Allah should rescue our people,” he said on Sunday, outside the dusty school grounds.

One of his missing sons, 17-year-old Buhari, was named after President Muhammadu Buhari, a native of Katsina state.

Anas, 16, was also missing. Lawal said the school principal addressed parents, telling them to pray.

Bint’a Ismail, mother of an abducted child, said residents of Katsina “are in a terrifying condition”.

“We don’t see the value of the government. I have a younger brother and a child taken by the kidnappers. I’m from Danja, Katsina state and I’ve been here in the school since dawn and yet there’s no update,” Ismail said.

Some boys seen in the area reportedly said they had escaped from the forest where the gunmen took them, but it was not immediately clear how many remained in captivity or what the group wanted. The Associated Press news agency quoted Katsina state police spokesman Gambo Isah as saying in a statement that about 400 students were missing, while 200 were accounted for.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the area is far from the usual area of operation of the Boko Haram armed group which began its violent campaign in northeastern Nigeria in 2009 with the goal of imposing its version of strict Islamic law.

In 2018, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 100 girls in the northeastern Nigerian town of Dapchi. And six years ago, in 2014, the same group abducted more than 270 girls in the town of Chibok.

Ovigwe Eguegu, geopolitical and security analyst at Afripolitika, told Al Jazeera, it is very likely that the perpetrators of the Kankara attack are bandits and not members of Boko Haram.

“These states [such as Katsina] in northwestern Nigeria are known to have serious attacks by bandits, uncoordinated groups that don’t really have any malign intention against the state, or are trying to impose any policy on … the state like we have with Boko Haram,” Eguegu said.

“These are just criminal elements operating freely in northwestern Nigeria.”

There is growing anger with the precarious security situation in Nigeria. Late last month, armed fighters killed many farmers in northeastern Borno state, beheading some of them.

Oby Ezekwesili, a former Nigerian education minister, told Al Jazeera the latest abduction of schoolchildren was a “major tragedy” and “an indication that we learned no lessons from previous tragedies”.

A classroom at the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara following the attack [Abdullahi Inuwa/Reuters]

SOURCE : AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES