In Malawi, some students have been going to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News in Brief 27 July 2021

27 July 2021

Rising concern over plight of Eritrean refugees in Tigray camps: UNHCR
IOM: Dozens missing in #Libya shipwreck
600 million children not in school because of COVID-19, reports UNICEF

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AMISOM troops serving in Somalia.

AU-UN/Stuart Price (file photo)

UN and Africa: focus on African Union, post offices and digital classroom in a box

24 November 2016

AU-led peace operations need “predictable and sustainable” financing

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Children from the Central African Republic in the 2014 photo at Primary School 1 in UNHCR Mole Refugee Camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

UNHCR/Sebastian Rich

“Digital classroom in a box” could boost rural education in Africa

23 November 2016

What’s been described as a “digital classroom in a box” could provide a much-needed boost to rural education across Africa.

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