Hepatitis outbreak closes schools, sends scores to hospital in Ukraine’s Vinnytsia
Reuters Schools will move to an online regime starting Monday in Ukraine’s central city of Vinnytsia after a Hepatitis A outbreak sent scores of children and adults to the hospital, the country’s chief sanitary official said over the weekend. “The main thing now is to establish the centre of the outbreak and the causes in […]
Haitian gangs run schools, clinics as government absent – UN report
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Haitian gangs run schools, clinics and foundations in place of an increasingly absent government, even as their criminal rackets help gang leaders amass funds and afford luxury homes with swimming pools in the hemisphere’s poorest country. That was one of the findings of a comprehensive United Nations report published on Wednesday. People fleeing […]
In Burkina Faso, a million children out of school due to insecurity – UNICEF
Dakar, SenegalReuters More than one million children and 31,000 teachers have been unable to return to their classrooms in Burkina Faso due to violence and insecurity as the West African nation starts another academic year on Monday, UNICEF said. Schoolchildren who fled from attacks of armed militants in Sahel region attend a class in Dori, […]
Torrential rain, floods kill 22 across northern India
Reuters Torrential rain across northern India has killed at least 22 people, as well as causing landslides and flash floods in the region, authorities and local media said on Monday. Schools in New Delhi were closed after heavy rains lashed the national capital over the weekend, and authorities in the Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh […]
Essay: Why schoolchildren are regularly being targeted by terrorist groups in many countries
In an article first published on The Conversation, BRIAN J PHILLIPS, co-author of ‘Insurgent Terrorism: Intergroup Relations and the Killing of Civilians’, explores what’s behind what appears to be an escalating trend of terrorism against schools…
Europe’s city schools, hospitals at risk from extreme heat, EU agency says
Brussels, BelgiumReuters Nearly half of schools and hospitals in European cities are located in urban “heat islands”, exposing vulnerable populations to health-threatening temperatures as climate change impacts worsen, the European Union’s environment agency has said. Around 46 per cent of hospitals and 43 per cent of schools are in areas at least two degrees Celsius […]
In the US, judge rules Mississippi must give religious exemption on vaccines
Jackson, Mississippi, US AP Mississippi must join most other states in allowing religious exemptions from vaccinations that children are required to receive so they can attend school, a federal judge has ruled. US District Judge Sul Ozerden handed down the decision Monday in a lawsuit filed last year by several parents who say their religious […]
Conflict in eastern Congo forces thousands of schools to close
Kihisi, Democratic Republic Of Congo Reuters Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people’s camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again. Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya, 22, repairs his mother’s […]
Suspected schoolgirl poisoning attacks rattle a shaken Iran
Dubai, United Arab Emirates AP Over the past three months, hundreds of young girls attending different schools in Iran have become overpowered by what are believed to be noxious fumes wafting into their classrooms, with some ending up weakened on hospital beds. Officials in Iran’s theocracy initially dismissed these incidents, but now describe them as […]
Postcards: Toughened by war’s scars, Kyiv presses on while Russia attacks
DAN PELESCHUK, of Reuters, reports from Kyiv on the resilience of the Ukrainian population amid the ongoing conflict…