{"id":174963,"date":"2024-06-21T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T05:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-pre-primary-education-for-children-benefits-everyone\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T05:42:22","slug":"africa-pre-primary-education-for-children-benefits-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-pre-primary-education-for-children-benefits-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Pre-Primary Education for Children Benefits Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Scholars across Africa are linking conflict prevention and peacebuilding to reducing economic, social and environmental stresses. The African Union&#8217;s declaration of 2024 as the &#8216;Year of Education&#8217; should spur progress. This guest column is among a series of articles that look at such critical issues as food security, which are essential for keeping and building a peaceful world. Peacebuilding reporting on AllAfrica is supported by a grant from the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.carnegie.org\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegie.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carnegie Corporation of New York<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">On&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406200742.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Scholars across Africa are linking conflict prevention and peacebuilding to reducing economic, social and environmental stresses. The African Union&#8217;s declaration of 2024 as the &#8216;Year of Education&#8217; should spur progress. This guest column is among a series of articles that look at such critical issues as food security, which are essential for keeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,6481,7371,1632,257,47952,1135,254],"class_list":["post-174963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benefits","tag-children","tag-education","tag-news","tag-preprimary","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}