Uganda will provide universal free education to poor secondary school students beginning next month. But the education minister insists that the program - the first in East Africa - will only be accorded to high performing students. The Japanese government will provide teaching expertise while the African Development Bank will give a grant to fund the construction of schooling facilities. (BBC)
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