23/02/2015
By Irene Wabiwa-Betoko*
23 February 2015 — The chimpanzee is one of mankind’s closest relatives. However there are many of us who do not treat them with what could be called familial affection.
Source: Greenpeace
Chimps and other primates in Africa face an increasing number of threats to their very existence.
They are traded and eaten as bush meat, have their homes destroyed by illegal loggers, are likely to be highly affected by climate change and there are reports that their numbers suffered greatly because of Ebola.
On top of it all, they are also seeing their homes destroyed by unscrupulous agribusiness companies – many foreign-owned – who are clearing vast tracts of rainforest throughout west and central Africa to make way for plantations producing palm oil, rubber and other commodities.
New evidence from Greenpeace Africa, publicized today, reveals that several projects in Cameroon are destroying and threatening ape habitat.
Satellite images show that the Chinese-owned Hevea Sud rubber and palm oil project in the country’s South region has already resulted in over 3,000 hectares of rainforest destroyed with many thousands more to come.
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23/02/2015
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These numbers tell us that technology is now common even in areas where women’s educational opportunities are limited. A burgeoning number of programmes using mobile devices for learning are also successfully reaching women and girls. However gaps remain.
Quality of education and access to education is still unequal across gender lines, and disparities result in disproportional literacy rates for males and females. Globally, two out of every three illiterate adults are women.
Another complexity is usage and access to Internet technology. In low- to middle-income countries, a woman is 21 per cent less likely to own a mobile phone than a man, and the divide is similar for Internet access.
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23/02/2015
“I always wanted to go to school,” said Azra Misbih-ul-huda, 17, who lives in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “ When this free education mobile learning project was launched in our area I was very excited […]I said to my mother I need to be educated and my mother eventually agreed because she said I had helped her a lot and I deserved it. Up until then I had been living in the village helping my mother with daily chores.” *
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UNESCO celebrates Mobile Learning Week 2015
“Before the mobile learning course I and many girls of my age could not read and write a single word, but now all of the girls who benefited from this project can easily read books and now we often exchange books,” Azra said.
Leveraging technology to empower women and girls like Azra and her friends is the theme of this year’s Mobile Learning Week, which will be celebrated from 23 to 27 February.
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23/02/2015
MAIDUGURI, February 2015 (IRIN) – Mohammed Abubaker is angry. Ten months ago, he was a businessman with a comfortable life in Nigeria’s northeastern border town of Gwoza. Now he’s homeless, his life turned upside down by the Boko Haram insurgency, and he doesn’t even own the clothes he wears.
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**Photo: Obinna Anyadike/IRIN | “We fled with just the clothes on our backs,” says Mohammed Abubakar.
Abubaker, 35, fled Gwoza for Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, 135 kms northwest. In the fear and confusion of Boko Haram’s sudden arrival in his hometown, shooting at everyone they met, he had just enough time to gather his family and run. He doesn’t know if his parents and in-laws are still alive.
“I didn’t take anything out of the house; we fled with just the clothes on our backs. We left everything,” said Abubaker. To add insult to injury, he thinks Boko Haram probably torched his shop – he saw other stores burning as he ran.
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