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Majority of the children out of school are from households whose heads have no formal education

77 in 100 teachers in public schools are employed on Permanent and Pensionable terms.

They were located in a known dangerous area and may have died as a result of a drone attack by the US Africa Command on February 15th.

Cuba dismissed claims that the two doctors were killed in a US airstrike.

The Cuban President addressed the nation after reports a US strike had killed the two abducted doctors.

On Thursday, a bomb attached to a donkey cart exploded at the cross-border point between Mandera and Bula Hawa in Mandera County, killing at least one police officer and injuring two others.

Two other officers were injured in the morning incident, police said.

NAIROBI, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- A Kenyan police officer was killed and three others were wounded on Thursday after an explosive device, attached to a donkey cart, detonated at a border crossing in Mandera County bordering Somalia, according to the police.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb blew up at a checkpoint on the Kenya-Somalia border Thursday, killing one Kenyan police officer and critically wounding four others, authorities said.

The advisory comes two days to the fifth anniversary of the DusitD2 complex terrorist attack.