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Goats and Soda
Afghan girls and women and girls protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26, 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls.

Afghans who want teen girls back in school have new allies: Taliban-affiliated clerics

May 05, 2022
For 9 months, teen girls have been pretty much unable to go to school. Protests have been shut down. Now clerics — including some affiliated with the Taliban – are urging an end to the school ban.
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Goats and Soda
Angeline Murimirwa, executive director of the girls' education group Camfed in Africa, at a pub in Oxford, England, in 2018. In August, Camfed was awarded the $2.5 million 2021 Hilton Humanitarian Prize.

Whatever Happened To ... The Woman Whose Mission Is To Get African Girls In School?

Sep 09, 2021
Angeline Murimirwa leads Camfed, a group that has given scholarships to 4.8 million girls in Africa. And now the group has been awarded the $2.5 million Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
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Goats and Soda
Students work on a classroom exercise at a school in Kibera, a poor neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya.

How Do You Help Girls Thrive In School? There's A Surprising Answer

Jun 27, 2021
A new study finds that girl-centric programs may not be the only effective way to boost girls' school performance in low-income countries.
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World
A man cries over the body of a victim of deadly bombings on Saturday near a school, at a cemetery west of Kabul on Sunday. More than 50 were killed in the attack, many of them pupils between 11 and 15 years old. More than 100 were wounded.

Afghanistan School Attack: Death Toll Rises, As Do Fears Over Sending Girls To School

May 10, 2021
"Should we ask children to go to school when the schools are not safe for them? Can we do that?" asks an education activist. One wounded student says she wants to go back. "Continue school," she says.
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Book Reviews
People attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria on Oct. 14, 2014.

Girls Captured By Boko Haram Brought Into Focus In 'Beneath The Tamarind Tree'

Jul 10, 2019
Former CNN journalist Isha Sesay argues that the Nigerian government, the media, and the public have failed the 276 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group five years ago.
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