GUINEA-BISSAU: GOVERNMENT HE REFORM EFFORTS PROMOTE DISCORD AND ANGER
March 6th, 2024
Students and lecturers in Guinea-Bissau have been protesting against their new government firing educational directors and a rector, and their replacements - leading a higher education sector that has been accused of being mired in graft and inefficiency.
Guinea-Bissau's ministry of the interior and public order formally banned all public demonstrations across the country on January 15, but anger is simmering over the sackings and a refusal to pay lecturers the new government say have not been properly registered, and sometimes are not teaching at ...
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