AfricaVision Online http://africavisiononline.com African News Online Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:22:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Fatwa alone will not stop FGM/C http://africavisiononline.com/blog/2010/01/28/fatwa-alone-will-not-stop-fgmc/ http://africavisiononline.com/blog/2010/01/28/fatwa-alone-will-not-stop-fgmc/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:16:17 +0000 IRIN http://africavisiononline.com/?p=933 NOUAKCHOTT, 29 January 2010 (IRIN) – A recent fatwa banning female genital mutilation/cutting in Mauritania will help reduce the practice only if religious leaders take the message to the people, scholars and anti-FGM/C activists say.

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Share this on [...]]]> http://africavisiononline.com/blog/2010/01/26/pig-cull-induced-street-rubbish-a-national-scandal/feed/ 0 US government has suspended Kenya’s education aid http://africavisiononline.com/blog/2010/01/26/us-government-has-suspended-kenya%e2%80%99s-education-aid/ http://africavisiononline.com/blog/2010/01/26/us-government-has-suspended-kenya%e2%80%99s-education-aid/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:54:13 +0000 AfricaVision Online http://africavisiononline.com/?p=807 The US government has suspended a five-year plan to fund Kenya’s education programs following fraud allegation in the east African state.

Up to US$1.3 million meant for the Free Primary Education (FPE) program is believed to have been stolen or diverted to other use by senior Education ministry officials.

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