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Half of Primary School Leavers Can't Read or Write
Global education conference in Senegal is told $2bn needed annually to tackle illiteracy
A global education conference being held in Senegal has been told that $2bn will be needed annually to tackle global illiteracy. We hear from teachers.
Also in the programme: a former FBI agent tell us that Republican plans to release a memo critical of the agency runs the risk of reducing trust in it; and nuclear physicist and Fidel Castro's eldest son has died.
(Photo: Children at school. Credit: Getty Images)
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