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  Ensuring Home-Based Education in African Member States in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic 07/10/2025

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  This report by ADEA, published by WATHI, reviews how twelve African countries ensured learning continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. With schools c...

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  Country : Burkina Faso , Ivory Coste , Ghana

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Academic analysis and Think Tank / Governance, Inclusion,
Ensuring Home-Based Education in African Member States in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic 07/10/2025
Summary :
This report by ADEA, published by WATHI, reviews how twelve African countries ensured learning continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. With schools closed, governments implemented emergency measures such as radio and TV lessons, and online platforms like Zoom, Google Classroom, and WhatsApp. Despite these efforts, challenges remained—limited infrastructure, unequal access, and insufficient inclusion of vulnerable learners. Some countries, including Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco, and South Africa, developed specific initiatives to reduce educational disparities. The report highlights the importance of investing in distance education, fostering collaboration between public and private sectors, and building national expertise to ensure educational resilience during crises.
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Governance, Inequality, Education, Politique publique, Santé publique, Inclusion
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  The Challenges Confronting Islamic Education in Guinea 22/12/2025

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  The article examines the major challenges confronting Islamic education in Guinea within a context shaped by persistent economic, social, and politica...

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  Country : Guinea

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The Challenges Confronting Islamic Education in Guinea 22/12/2025
Summary :
The article examines the major challenges confronting Islamic education in Guinea within a context shaped by persistent economic, social, and political constraints. While Islamic education plays a crucial role in transmitting religious, moral, and cultural values, the study highlights severe limitations related to inadequate infrastructure, insufficient funding, and a lack of qualified teachers. Curricula remain heavily focused on traditional religious instruction, with limited integration of science, technology, and critical thinking, reducing students’ ability to compete in higher education and the labor market. The research also underscores the institutional marginalization of Islamic education, marked by limited government recognition, weak policy frameworks, gender disparities, and linguistic barriers due to the predominance of Arabic instruction. These factors contribute to the perception of Islamic education as inferior to secular schooling. The authors argue that systemic reforms are urgently needed, including increased public investment, curriculum harmonization, teacher training, and stronger alignment between Islamic education and national development objectives.
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Governance, Inequality, Religious education, Education, Politique publique
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  Digital Divide and Access to Basic Services in West Africa 04/11/2025

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  This paper investigates how the digital divide shapes access to essential services—drinking water, health, and education—in West Africa using Afrobaro...

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  Country : Burkina Faso , Nigeria , Senegal , Benin , Ivory Coste , Guinea

  Organizations : ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (EconStor, Kiel–Hamburg)
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Digital Divide and Access to Basic Services in West Africa 04/11/2025
Summary :
This paper investigates how the digital divide shapes access to essential services—drinking water, health, and education—in West Africa using Afrobarometer Round 9 data. The authors build a multidimensional digital divide index integrating access to equipment, internet use, and information isolation. Three main findings emerge: (1) formal education is by far the strongest determinant of digital inclusion, ahead of wealth or geography; (2) the digital divide is strongly associated with lower access to basic services, even after accounting for territorial heterogeneity; and (3) rural–urban differences are less significant than expected, suggesting that marginalization transcends geography. The study concludes that without inclusive and educational policies, ongoing digitalization efforts could inadvertently deepen social and territorial inequalities across the region.
Keywords :
Politics, Inequality, Natural ressources, Religious education, Education, Discrimination, Soicial sciences, Knowlege production, Information, Equality
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ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (EconStor, Kiel–Hamburg)
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  Statelessness in Senegal and West Africa: A Little-Known and Devastating Scourge 21/05/2025

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  Modou Ndiaye's article highlights statelessness in West Africa, particularly in Senegal, where over a million people are stateless and hundreds of tho...

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  Country : Senegal

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Statelessness in Senegal and West Africa: A Little-Known and Devastating Scourge 21/05/2025
Summary :
Modou Ndiaye's article highlights statelessness in West Africa, particularly in Senegal, where over a million people are stateless and hundreds of thousands at risk. This issue stems from legal gaps, discriminatory nationality policies, border changes, lack of awareness about civil registration, and the absence of automatic nationality transmission. The consequences are severe: lack of access to education, healthcare, and formal employment. The author calls for legislative reforms, modernization of civil registration, awareness campaigns, and the establishment of procedures to determine stateless status, in line with international conventions ratified by Senegal.
Keywords :
Human Rights, Discrimination, Nationality, Statelessness
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