At least 187 Primary Seven pupils in Uganda's Kamuli District got pregnant during the Covid-19 induced lockdown, the Resident District Commissioner has revealed.
Parents of more than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren could only wait for news Saturday, as more than 40 others seized elsewhere 10 days ago were freed.
About 60 percent of students in primary and secondary schools drink alcohol and more than a third have consumed marijuana, cocaine, and other prohibited drugs and substances, a new report by Makerere University School of Psychology has revealed.
Thousands of learners in Kenya failed to report back to school on Monday as directed by the government, raising fears of mass dropouts across the country.
Some Kenyan students in Kisumu county, close to the overflowing Lake Victoria, are forced to take a boat to school, only to find waterlogged classrooms and no teachers on site. Public schools have reopened in Kenya following a closure ordered by the government in March 2020 to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Schoolboys abducted at the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, have lamented the sufferings they went through in their kidnappers’ den.
