Africa - Nepad's e-schools project kicks off in Africa.

The e-schools satellite learning program, run by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), has linked less than 100 schools in Africa to the internet. The program, first announced in 2003, aimed to connect more than 600,000 schools on the continent and to internet-enable all African secondary schools within five years and all primary schools within a decade. The demo project is complete in nine countries: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritius, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda, said Jeanne Meta of the Nepad e-Africa commission, which overseas the project. Six schools in each country have received at least 20 personal computers in a lab, training for learners …