Ahead of the Senegalese presidential elections on February 25, ARTICLE 19 publishes a new report on the state of freedom of expression in Senegal which presses for the legal, political and institutional framework for freedom of expression in Senegal to be reformed.

The government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf aims to dramatically increase the country’s enrollment rate through the Education for All law that was enacted in 2004. "The enforcement is getting the results we want. Children are now coming from the farms, off the street and into the classrooms," Sirleaf recently told reporters.

Morocco's "march towards light" as its literacy programme is called is brightening up as official figures go, but with far too many shady areas still. Two years after the launch of the programme intended to eradicate illiteracy by 2015 in line with the Millennium Development Goals, officials claim that illiteracy has diminished to 38 percent of the population of 30 million, from 80 percent in 1960 and 48 percent in 1999.

This paper explores the potential importance of marriage and childbirth as determinants of school-leaving in sub-Saharan Africa and identifies some of the common underlying factors that contribute to premature school-leaving and early marriage and childbearing.