Tunis: British Ambassador to Tunisia Helen Winterton said on Tuesday her country supports Tunisia's efforts to develop its educational programmes, especially through capacity-building in English and soft skills in educational institutions. The United Kingdom aims to broaden the scope of its partnership programme over the next period to include second chance schools and vocational training centres, the ambassador said as she met Tuesday with Employment and Vocational Training Ministier Lotfi Dhieb. This in addition to supporting economic empowerment programmes, mainly through partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB), The meeting helped follow up partnership programmes in employment and vocational training, reads a ministry press release. Dhieb commended partnership with the UK in all fields. He also outlined the ministry's priorities, mainly an improved employability of jobseekers among higher education and vocational training graduates. In this respect, he emphasised the importance of scaling up partnership in private entrepreneurship and support of young promoters. There is also need to increase the attractiveness of vocational training so as to attract as many drop-outs as possible and build their capacities so that they can easily integrate the national or international job market. The creation of the second chance school in the governorate of Kairouan under a partnership between Tunisia, the UK and the UNICEF, is a qualitative leap aimed to reintegrating early school drop-outs into the training system, the minister added. It is highly important to beef up language and soft skills capacities of jobseekers and coordinate action in this area, Dhieb further said. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse A Court sitting in Kilgoris, Trans Mara West Sub-county has granted the police 21 days to complete investigations on a case where two senior prison officers were murdered. Senior Resident Magistrate, Cyprian Waswa, granted the police more time to carry out investigations after the Prosecution Counsel submitted an application requesting for addition time to probe the case. The Five arrested are Emmanuel Lemashon, Edwin Taleng'o, Elizabeth Tiptip, Mark Ledama and Malvin Shonimeu. However, the main suspect is still at large. The two prison officers were murdered on March 14 at Metinkuar village, Trans Mara West Sub-county in an alleged mission to settle a Sacco- related matter, with a retired colleague, Pius Lemiso Ndiwa, who is yet to be arrested. The deceased identified as Inspector Patrick Mukunyi Kuya and Senior Sergent Daniel Nairimo, had left Nairobi on March 13 to settle a Sacco-related matter with Ndiwa, who allegedly defaulted on a loan and left the city to reside in the countryside. Upon reaching Ndiwa's homestead in Mentinkuar, the duo faced hostility from the Ndiwa's family who screamed as he had allegedly told his family that the two strangers in their homestead were thugs. With that information, Ndiwa's two sons allegedly pounced on the two prison wardens, who were in civilian attire with arrows and machetes. Source: Kenya News Agency
