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Jan 16, 2025 | 
universityworldnews.com | Clemence Manyukwe
MADAGASCAR
Growing up in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Sambatriniaina Rajohnson loved watching films depicting real or imaginary science and technology stories. Science fiction portraying space and life on other planets, later on, inspired her to study astrophysics at the University of Antananarivo. Her fascination with space earned Rajohnson a L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa Award at the end of 2024.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Clemence Manyukwe
CLEMENCE MANYUKWE speaks to a Rwandan opposition leader stuck in political limbo while those around her go missingRWANDA’S OPPOSITION LEADER, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, has \been blocked from leaving her country since 2018 and barred from challenging President Paul Kagame in elections since 2010. Some of her aides and supporters have been assassinated. Others have mysteriously disappeared.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Clemence Manyukwe
AFRICA
On 15 November Antony Manyara, the president of the Kenya Universities Students’ Organisation, or KUSO, petitioned Kenya’s parliament over gender-based violence (GBV) cases that are on the rise at universities, in particular, and across the country, in general. Manyara’s petition triggered a national debate just before the start, on 25 November, of the 16 Days of Activism Against GBV.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Clemence Manyukwe
ZIMBABWE
Zimbabwe’s government has allocated about US$6 million in its 2025 national budget to address the country’s critical skills needs by aligning scholarships to sectors with skills deficits, formulating a national skills strategy and updating its national skills audit report.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Clemence Manyukwe
ZIMBABWE
As a schoolgirl, Senzelweyinkosi Ngwenya, who lived in the remote village of Malunku in Nkayi, Zimbabwe, used to wake up at 3am to get ready to walk the 12 kilometres to school, a journey during which she sometimes encountered wild animals. Today, she has an honours degree in animal science and is the recipient of no less than 13 prizes from her university.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Clemence Manyukwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA
The UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa (UNESCO ROSA) has started an initiative to strengthen quality assurance in higher education across countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The initiative falls under UNESCO’s Campus Africa project, a flagship education programme which aims to build integrated, inclusive and quality tertiary education systems and institutions for the development of inclusive and equitable societies on the continent.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Clemence Manyukwe
ZIMBABWE
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched an academic study into the impact of colonialism on the African country that will culminate in a demand for reparations from former colonial power, Britain. The study is being conducted by the Zimbabwe National Elders Forum led by Dr Felix Mukonowengwe and other members include academics and clergy.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Clemence Manyukwe
MOZAMBIQUE
Ongoing political protests in Mozambique have disrupted learning at institutions of higher education across the country amid claims that some students who participated in the demonstrations have been kidnapped and tortured. Mozambique has been gripped by unrest since 24 October when the results of the 9 October election were announced.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Clemence Manyukwe
ZIMBABWE
The High Court in Zimbabwe has directed the withdrawal of all honorary degrees conferred mostly on government officials and business people by a private institution following a lawsuit initiated by the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE).
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Alexandra Domenech |Martin Bright |Jemimah Steinfeld |Clemence Manyukwe
There is no bigger crime than the killing of the soul. “Stop punitive psychiatry!” read the sign held by activist Oksana Osadchaya at a solo protest in the centre of Moscow in June. The activist – who is visually impaired – was making her protest even though the tiniest acts of dissent can lead to severe punishment. She was taken to a police station where she wasn’t allowed to meet her lawyer at first, and was released without charge only after being held for several hours.
