Sudanese refugees are on the move in two host countries, Chad and Uganda, because of attacks from their enemies or the fear of such attacks, the United Nations refugee agency said. More than 31,000 Sudanese refugees were displaced from their settlements in northern Uganda because of 30 raids in the last three months by rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said. Since 6 May, UNHCR said, it has moved 52,444 refugees from the area of the Chadian border with Sudan to camps further inside Chad, while another 7,000 refugees had arrived at the camps on their own in their flight from Sudan's Janjaweed militia, which has committed massacres, rapes, looting and flattening of villages in the western Darfur region of Sudan.

Kenya is studying the education systems of Japan, Korea and Malaysia to see how it can reform its own system to spur industrialisation. This was disclosed by the chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education, Mr Daniel Karaba, as his committee left for Japan. Karaba said during the two-week visit his 6-man committee would critically study the education systems of the three countries and Thailand if time allows. He said the trip has been necessitated by the envisaged reforms in the Kenyan education system to make it more responsive to the needs of the country.

Last week a league of non-governmental organisations met all over the world to deliberate on the Education for All (EFA) plan. The meeting which was tagged ‘Global Week of Action 2004 Roundtable on Education’ was also observed in Lagos. Various issues hindering the total achievement of the EFA goals were discussed. One of the topics discussed extensively at the roundtable, which attracted much debate, was the impact of HIV/AIDS on education in Nigeria. The participants agreed that the pandemic is having a colossal impact on the education sector of the country.