This becomes very expensive as Burundi is one of the world ... ago the government introduced the teaching of English and Swahili at primary school, where the teachers were already struggling ...

Niyonkunda was born in Kigoma, western Tanzania, to parents who fled their native Burundi in 1972. She grew up speaking either English of Kiswahili at home and at school. The family moved back to ...

However, this assistance comes at time when the province of Muyinga has over 4000 school drop outs due to the famine currently ravaging most of the country. Burundi intends to train 4203 English ...

In Burundi, more than 150 children ... and is learning to read and write English and Swahili. He said: "I never went to school when the British were in charge, but I am very happy that I now ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Classrooms and chairs were scarce at crowded Burundian primary schools as 500,000 children — nearly double last year’s enrollment — showed up for the first day of ...

More than 200 students at a school in Burundi were sent home Tuesday after defacing pictures of President Pierre Nkurunziza, according to an education official. Kwizera Guillaume, the director of ...

The school feeding program financed by the Early Grade Learning Project in Burundi PAADESCO is an ongoing program in two food insecure provinces in Burundi (Muyinga and Kirundo). To date 87,000 ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A Georgia Gwinnett College student is working to keep girls in school in Burundi. Gratia Uwizeye said many of the girls drop out because they don’t have ...

REUTERS/Evrard Ngendakumana NAIROBI (Reuters) - A secondary school in rural Burundi sent home 230 students on Tuesday for defacing the portrait of President Pierre Nkurunziza in their textbooks ...