200 Kenyan teachers to Sudan soon

April 9, 2006 (NAIROBI) — Kenya is to send 200 primary school teachers to Sudan soon, acting Education minister Dr Noah Wekesa has announced.

According to Nairobi based The Standard, the minister said the Government had agreed to send the teachers on request from the Sudan government.

“A delegation from Sudan will see me shortly. We have agreed to send the teachers there,” Wekesa said when he officially opened a one-day conference for head teachers from city schools in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania at the Kenya College of Communication Technology in Mbagathi yesterday.

Wekesa said Sudan’s request for teachers followed successful negotiations over the deployment of 50 secondary school teachers from Kenya to Rwanda.

Kenya is a teachers’ provider to many east African countries like Rwanda, Seychelles and Uganda. Also, Kenya works to harmonise the school curricula with Tanzania and Uganda.

(The Standard/ST)