EDUCATION
SENEGAL – Violence at UCAD: Sanctions have given to student protesters

The students of the University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) were sanctioned this Friday, July 2, 2021 in Dakar the Senegalese capital. At issue, acts of vandalism were noted within the social campus causing numerous damages.The university’s discipline council made its decision. In total, 88 students were sanctioned.
During a meeting, the university authorities of the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar sanctioned this Friday, July 2, 2021, nearly a hundred students. The latter were involved in acts of vandalism and degradation within the academic institute. Indeed, it all began with the proclamation of the results of the elections of the faculty of law on June 8, 2021 and the faculty of letters on June 12, 2021.The students immediately challenged the results by talking about fraud in this internal election. The anger has thus risen a notch causing uncontrolled demonstrations.
These sanctions follow President Macky Sall’s request to put an end to university violence while he was on an economic tour in Matam. 88 students were involved in the proceeding, including student Serigne Mbacké, in license II at the Faculty of Law. He was definitively excluded, a very heavy sentence. Seven other students are excluded for five years. Two of these students are in the Master’s program, Boubacar Diallo, a Master I student in the Faculty of Letters and Sidy Diop, a Master II student in the Faculty of Law. The other five are all in license II. 37 other students were also excluded from the Faculty of Law for a term of two years. 21 students were discharged, 9 others were reprimanded.Pending their hearing, the registration of 10 students from the Faculty of Law has been suspended.
Through these decisions, the university authorities want to pacify the campus. The primary objective is to combat violence but also and above all to send a strong signal to other students.
Pope Abdoulaye Touré, an activist and member of the platform “NIO LANK”, suspended for five years, reacted on his facebook page: “I swear before God and men that I have never been involved in any act of vandalism or violence at the UCAD like nowhere else”. The activist and his comrades faced the press this Tuesday, July 6 at Cheikh Anta Diop University. They brought the rector and the dean of the law school into disrepute. According to them, their suspension within the university is purely political, and the treatment of this file has in no way been equitable. While some students were heavily sanctioned through their exclusion, others were not even bothered. He intends to challenge this decision of the disciplinary board by taking the matter to the Supreme Court.
EDUCATION
CAMEROON – 7 million children deprived of birth certificates, a national issue

In Cameroon, about 7 million children, including more than 1.5 million in school, do not have a birth certificate. The absence of this essential document for access to education, health and other public services, particularly affects rural areas and the regions of the Far North, Northwest and Southwest. The subject was discussed during the 3rd International Economic Days of Municipalities (JEICOM), held from June 2 to 4, 2025, at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé.
A deplorable situation at the moment when Cameroon is celebrating the 5th edition of Children’s Day under the theme “Child-sensitive budgeting and planning: a strategic lever for the promotion and protection of children’s rights”.
Faced with the constant problem of establishing birth certificates in Cameroon, the government, through the National Civil Registry Office (BUNEC), collaborates with partners such as UNICEF or the World Bank in order to provide an effective response to the phenomenon.
In this dynamic, the Bunec provides the town halls with tools to ensure a “compliant and reliable registration of births”. It also supports them in the modernization of the civil status system, including the digitization of registers. UNICEF has enabled some town halls to strengthen their human resources capacities and develop innovative strategies.
Several initiatives were launched, notably the national forum on universal birth registration, organized in April 2024, which brought together mayors, civil status officials, and partners to discuss solutions to the problem.
EDUCATION
AVERROÈS – The first Muslim school under contract in France, is under threat

Founded 20 years after the ban on veiling in schools, Averroes, the first Muslim high school under contract in France, is threatened, with a favourable opinion on the termination of its contract with the State having been delivered Monday.
A consultative committee chaired by the Prefect of the North voted on Monday in favor of the termination of the association contract linking the State this Muslim school located in Lille, the big city of northern France, told AFP two sources close to the file, this Monday, November 27, 2023.
Under the terms of this contract, signed in 2008, the teachers of the school are paid by the National Education and the extracurricular staff by the Region. The last word now goes to the prefect, who must make his decision on the future of this contract “in the coming days”, said one of the two sources.
Since 2019, the local authorities have refused to pay the subsidy provided under this contract with the State, accusing Averroès of a Qatari donation of 950,000 euros in 2014.
In filigree is also pointed out the historical link of Averroes with the Muslims of France (ex-UOIF), organization stemming from the Egyptian movement of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The idea of creating a Muslim high school dates back to 1994, when 19 girls were excluded from a Lille public high school for refusing to remove their veil to go to school, despite a circular prohibiting “ostentatious religious signs”.
The Lycée Averroès opened in September 2003 with about fifteen students in the premises of the mosque of the working-class district of Lille-Sud, with the support of the UOIF.
With more than 800 students, including 400 under contract, Averroes remains by far the largest of the six Muslim institutions under contract in France. Only high school is recognized, not college.
EDUCATION
SENEGAL – UCAD Academic Council decides to continue the year with online courses

The Academic Council of the University Cheikh Anta DIOP of Dakar, which met on Monday, June 12, 2023 under the chairmanship of the Rector, Professor Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, has decided that the 2022/2023 academic year will continue with online courses for students, “After examining and analysing the situation resulting from the destruction of educational facilities and the entire University’s car fleet on Thursday, 1 June 2023, and anxious to safeguard the achievements of the process of regularizing the university calendar, the Board made the following decision: the resumption of pedagogical activities (courses, TP, TD) in distance education format,” reads in the communiqué of the Communication Directorate of the UCAD.
The academic calendar was established for the rest of the year: «from 15 June to 15 July 2023: first semester; from 24 July to 31 October 2023: second semester; beginning of November 2023: beginning of the academic year 2023-2024».
Also, the document stresses, the practical modalities of this complete changeover will be specified by the institutions. Students can benefit from technical assistance for the activation of institutional accounts by sending an email to (support@ucad.edu.sn)».
It should be noted that the investigation opened following the violent demonstrations that broke out at the University Sheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (Ucad), has already led to the arrest of three individuals. We’re talking about two infiltrators and a student at medical school. According to the investigation, these three individuals were referred to the prosecutor of the Republic, before joining the prison of Rebeuss with a charge followed by a warrant of committal on 13 June 2023.
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