Angola gains more than 9,000 new classrooms

 Luanda – The President of the Republic João Lourenço said Saturday that the education sector gained, in just less five years, 9,430 new classrooms.

According to the Head of State, there are 772 new schools and 313 schools rehabilitated as part of the implementation of the Integrated Programme for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM) underway since 2018.

In his State of the Nation Address, João Lourenço pointed out, as goals for the coming years, the continuous commitment to the training of teachers, reference schools.

He also spoke of the implementation of a different remuneration for teachers who teach in remote areas of the country, construction of new schools and making resources available for the efficient functioning of educational infrastructures.

In the same period, 20,109 new teachers entered the education system to boost the contingent of the National Education System, which currently has more than 200,000 permanent staff.

Data from the Ministry of Education (MED) show that in the previous academic year (2021-2022) over 10 million students were enrolled in the general education system, which includes pre-school, primary and secondary education, of whom three million are new students.

The three levels of education have currently 167,032 classrooms, with an increase of more than 69,348 new classrooms compared to 2017.

The number of teachers, which in 2017 was 181,624, increased to 206,624 teachers.

US President Joe Biden throws UK PM Liz Truss under the bus

 Washington DC – In a rare public criticism of a sitting UK Prime Minister by a sitting United States president, Joe Biden last week weighed in on the aborted $50 billion tax cuts that cost the short-lived Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng his job.

Responding to a reporter’s question on the withdrawn mini-budget, President Joe Biden observed that he is “not the only one who thought it was a mistake.”

Joe Biden had visited an ice cream parlor with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden during a casual DC stroll. Although Biden had every right to avoid answering questions in that setting, he unusually weighed in on an internal UK political issue that landed the new Prime Minister on the ropes.

Liz Truss is facing unprecedented backlash for a new prime minister with one fellow Tory MP publicly calling for her resignation barely two months into her administration.

Truss appointed a Ghanaian Kwasi Kwarteng as the first black to occupy the coveted Chancellor of the Exchequer position only to be fired after her administration’s mini-budget sent the markets reeling and unleashed a barrage of public backlash.

Kwarteng’s replacement, Jeremy Hunt, after a meeting last Saturday with Truss at her retreat, which some are calling a ‘hideaway’, announced that taxes would go up rather than down as the aborted mini-budget prescribed.

Truss is rumored to have changed her phone number multiple times to the extent that members of her own cabinet have difficulty reaching her.

It is noteworthy that Biden and Truss subscribe to opposing sides of the ideological spectrum. But the political alignment between the two countries has historically masked that divide – until the Biden comment.

The British Prime Minister is not expected to publicly respond to the unusual public jab.

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Joining the YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022. An article by Sofonie Dala

  The YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022 Concluded

Hello World!

Welcome Everyone To Our Summit!

Thousands of African youth left the just concluded YouthConnekt Africa 2022 Summit (YCAS) in Kigali, Rwanda with their heads held high, after three-days of discussions and assurances from world leaders and experts on how they can lead Africa’s development efforts. The summit brought together over 10,000 youth delegates representing 98 countries from across Africa and beyond.

“Don’t believe the story that you’re the leaders of tomorrow. Be the leaders of today.”

The digital entrepreneur Sofonie Dala also had the privilege of attending the summit during these 3 fantastic days. She was eager to harness continental opportunities and actively contribute to Africa’s socio-economic transformation.

A little piece of the event

“Young people don't have access to funding they need to run their business. Sometimes for those young people their dreams remain a hobby. Africa’s prosperity needs supercharging with youth as an engine for growth.”

The President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame opened the largest at BK Arena gathering thousands of young Africans and delegates from other continents and was joined by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua of Kenya for an interaction with over 9,000 youth from across the continent.

About YouthConnekt Africa

YouthConnekt Africa is a continental initiative with the mission to empower young people by enhancing their knowledge, experiences and skills while investing in their ideas, innovations and initiatives to harness Africa’s demographic dividend which aims at contributing to the achievement of Africa’s SDGs mandate, the AU 2063 agenda, and AU Youth Charter.

It was initiated in 2012 by the Government of Rwanda in partnership with the UNDP and is a multifaceted youth empowerment model focused on leveraging youth employability, entrepreneurship and civic engagement through innovation.

In the next few days, we will be posting more content about the 3 days of the summit. Stay tuned on our platform, don't miss out!

Kwasi Kwarteng fired after just 38 days as Chancellor of the Exchequer

 THIS JUST IN – Prime Minister Liz Truss has fired Kwasi Kwarteng as speculated earlier.

Mr Kwarteng’s downfall was set in motion by the mini-budget on 23 September, in which he announced £45bn in unfunded tax cuts.

The mini-budget pushed the pound to a record low against the dollar, sent the cost of government borrowing and mortgage rates up and led to an unprecedented intervention by the Bank of England.

Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng insisted that the turbulence in the UK economy was part of a global problem exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and post-pandemic recovery.

But last week, after open revolt by Tory MPs and a record surge for Labour in the polls, the prime minister announced the first major reversal of mini-budget policies when she backtracked on scrapping the 45p top rate of income tax.

The second U-turn came on Friday morning when the government said it would raise corporation tax from 19% to 25% next April, despite promising not to do so in the mini-budget.

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BURKINA FASO – Chaos brewing as transition process threatened with demonstrations

THIS JUST IN – Young Burkinabe leader Captain Ibrahim Traore wants to return to the barracks after his coup d’etat last month that removed another coupster Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.

After famously declaring that a soldier’s place is in the barracks and not at the presidential palace on October 2, and yet still officially appointed president on October 6, the young Captain insisted on going forward with a transitional charter that would appoint another person to lead the country through the transitional process.

The plan is that, after the transitional charter has been launched on Friday October 14, it would lead to the designation of a new leader to head the transitional process towards the next presidential elections.

    

But yesterday, on the eve of the launching of the transitional charter, the youth hit the streets of capital Ouagadougou and the southwestern city of Bobo-Dioulasso demanding that the transitional process be aborted to allow the young Captain to remain the leader of the Sahel country.

This morning, the demonstration has continued with the youth this time unsuccessfully attacking the conference center where the proceedings were taking place to enact the transitional charter.

The police has for the moment succeeded in stopping the attack on the conference center to stop the process. But DNT’s man on the ground Jiluis Ouya reports that no one knows how this will end.

Stay tuned for updates on the situation in Ouagadougou.

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Zanzibar swimming crabs deaths being investigated

 Zanzibar’s government is investigating why thousands of dead swimming crabs have washed up on the beaches of the Tanzanian islands.

Since 28 September, there have been reports of the dead crabs washing ashore at Mtoni, Mizingani and Forodhani public beaches.

The government is urging people not to worry it might be caused by pollution.

Reports indicate climate change leading to an abrupt change in the temperature of the sea might be to blame.

“Some living things like the swimming crabs cannot resist sudden changes in the sea, and they die and wash ashore,” Dr Salum Soud, a marine biologist and Zanzibar’s director of development and fisheries, he said.

“Ocean waters have layers of temperatures and so the waves force water underneath to go up, thus may cause low oxygen hence the crabs are likely to face death,” he added.

The mass deaths of the crabs is not an isolated incident, according to Sheha Mjaja Juma, Director General of the Zanzibar Environment Management Authority (Zema), who told Tanzania’s the citizen paper it had also happened in Seychelles.

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Pelosi about Trump: “I’m gonna punch him out, go to jail, and be happy”

 New remarkable, previously unseen video of events during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol showed an irate House Leader Nancy Pelosi vowing to “punch” Trump out if he made his way to “trespass on the Capitol grounds.”

The new video further shows how, for a brief moment, legislators on both sides of the political divide displayed uncommon comradery and genuine care for each other when their collective lives were under attack by the Trump crowd that had invaded the United States Capitol.

Pelosi was seen expressing what appeared to be genuine concern to Vice President Mike Pence with whom she had previously bantered over policy.

Meanwhile Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was seen in a huddle with Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer where he urged the acting Secretary of Defense to mobilize security to get to the Capitol “in one bit of a hurry, understand?”

Senate and House leaders on both sides put partisanship aside and worked remarkably well to reconvene to certify the election results that sealed the fate of President Trump and his efforts to overturn the election results.

DNT News

 

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