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All over the world and on all fronts, the Information and Communication Technologies have revolutionized human behavior. In the area of urban banditry, cell phones are used by bandits to devise intricate and sophisticated operating modes. This work both looks at the new operating modes of urban bandits and the role cell phones play in the development of this new school of crime. These study is based on the assumption that cell phones have provided bandits with a new modus operandi. The...

The school feeding program in government schools in Addis Ababa was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study employed a qualitative research to explore the effects of the interruption on students' well-being. The study participants were recruited from seven primary schools within six sub-cities of Addis Ababa using convenience sampling. Fifty-three in-depth interviews were conducted with students, parents, teachers, school principals, and school feeding agency officials. Thematic...

The Sankarani River is a tributary and powerful regulator of the hydrological regime of the Niger River.It plays a big role in the socio-economic development of Mali through the supply of electricity through the hydroelectric power station of Sélingué, its contribution in rice cultivation and fish farming.However, the inflow of water from this river over the past few decades has been very low, due to climate change and the degradation of its watershed.So this study set itself the objective...

<abstract> This article used qualitative research method to arrive at an in-depth understanding of the functionality of financial committees in schools as required by the Department of Education. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and document analysis with principals, finance officers, chairpersons, and treasures. Content analysis was used to analyse the data. The findings revealed that there are no finance committees and financial policies in schools. In case where there...

This contribution offers insights into why Senegal is the destination of choice for foreign students. Reasons include its colonial history and its reputation as the capital of francophone Africa. It is also the place where some of the leaders who ascended to the presidency of certain West African countries were educated. The challenges experienced in its public higher education system have paved the way for the emergence of the private sector. Subsequently, partnerships between Senegalese...

In Senegal, social-economic changes have likely affected dietary habits.As in many parts of the world, Senegalese children consume significant amounts of food between main meals (snacking) with a wide consumption of soft drinks and chips products which can have negative effects on children sanitary health.This study aims at investigating some dietary habits of Senegalese school-age children and the nutritional composition of some snacking products to alleviate nutrition and health issues...

Qualitative study was undertaken to obtain relevant information from students with disabilities in selected schools, their respective teachers and family/caregivers employing purposive and availability sampling techniques. Interview, focus group discussion and outside observation were conducted as major tools of data collection from respondents. Accordingly, the result of this study showed that students with disabilities face a number of psychosocial problems that could vary from home to...

Background: Substance use is a perpetual public health problem for students in tertiary institutions globally, South African universities and Nursing Colleges. Purpose: This study explored the impact of socialization factors on the prevalence of substance use by students in the Limpopo College of Nursing. Method: A qualitative, exploratory-descriptive design was used. Participants were selected through purposive and snowball sampling. Data were collected using unstructured interviews and...

Introduction Rapid urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, the main commercial hub in Tanzania, has resulted in congested health facilities, poor quality care, and unacceptably high facility-based maternal and perinatal mortality. Using a participatory approach, the Dar es Salaam regional government in partnership with a non-governmental organisation, Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania, implemented a complex, dynamic intervention to improve the quality of care and survival...

This paper examines whether the welfare difference between youth (aged 15-35) and adult (aged over 35) headed households between 2001 and 2018 is attributable to differences in educational attainment following Universal Primary Education (UPE) in Tanzania. The recentered influence function (RIF) decomposition method applied to household budget survey (HBS) data for 2001 and 2018 reveals that the increase in youth educational attainment between 2001 and 2018 is significant in explaining the...

Background: Significant morbidity in children is associated with infectious diseases especially soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections which are prevalent in sub-Saharan African countries.The objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of STH and intestinal protozoa among schoolchildren in Lomé, Togo.Patients and Methods: In November 2013, in each of the five districts of the Lomé-commune region, thirty pupils per level of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades of five...

In Nigeria, lifelong learning is been promoted through adult learning for women, more education centers such as vocational learning centers were established to cater for female learners (Olaniyi FO, Acad J Interdiscip Stud 3:493, 2014). In other words, vocational centers were created to encourage girl-child and women to take on vocational skills programs in order to bridge the gap. Though the present status of lifelong learning in Nigeria espouses literacy rates among women in terms of...

In concert with global developments, South Africa has embarked on an ambitious set of health care reforms towards universal health coverage (UHC) that necessitate the transformation of health workforce education. This study explored the context, types, and utilisation of decentralised training platforms (DTPs) in undergraduate medical education at four South African universities, and the implications for universal health coverage. The study was conducted at the health sciences faculties of...

urogenital schistosomiasis affects school-aged children with impacts on health, growth, and cognitive development. Basic schools along active water bodies have a possibility of a high infection among the children.we performed a school-based cross-sectional assessment of urogenital schistosomiasis among children in four selected rural communities along major rivers in the central region of Ghana. Three hundred and nine (309) basic school children class 1 to junior high school (JHS) 3 were...

Drought affects all pastoral and agro pastoral communities of the world, whose their livelihood is depend on rain water.It is one of the major constraints to sustainable livelihood of these communities in the arid and semi-arid areas.However, pastorals are using different coping strategies toward its impacts even though their choices are affected by different factors.The study was taken place in Yabello woredas of Boorana Zone, Southern Ethiopia to identify the major factors that affect...

Lesson planning, a pivotal aspect aiding the achievement of any lesson objective and eventually education goal, seems to be nothandled as expected in recent times. This is perhaps because preservice teachers tend to fail in meeting the expected demands in their lesson planning. Hence, this study explores the perceptions of university supervisors on preservice teachers’ lesson planning during their teaching practice, using selected schools where preservice teachers from a rural based...