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Nigeria Made Commitments to 35 Million People with Disabilities at the Global Disability Summit. Advocates Are Now Demanding the Receipts.

At a media roundtable held in Abuja on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, disability rights advocates in Nigeria did something that does not happen often enough in African policy spaces: they sat down with journalists, opened the government’s own commitments document, and went through it line by line, pointing out what had been promised, what deadline…

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Africa IFI Community Grants 2026: Up to £1,500 for Education Projects — Here Is How Disability Organisations Running Inclusive Education Work Can Apply

Important Transparency Note for Our Readers We want to be upfront with you before you read further: the Africa IFI Community Grants 2026 programme, run through the Cloud Chef Grant Programme under the Africa Impact Finance Initiative, is not a disability-specific grant. It does not target OPDs or disability organisations as a priority group. Its…

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Why Children with Disabilities in Africa Are Still Being Left Out of School And What Is Changing

Imagine a child who wants to learn. They live within walking distance of a school. Their family values education. But when they arrive at the gate, the school has no ramp for their wheelchair. The teacher has never been trained in inclusive instruction. There are no learning materials in Braille. The other children stare. The…

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