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Egypt has a comprehensive educational system that is better than many of its counterparts in the Middle East and North ... Cairo University, ranking at 5th position across Africa; Alexandria ...

Relics from the years of empire, Africa’s 26 colonial-rooted universities (total enrollment: 45,000) have survived independence unprepared and incapable of dealing with the problems of the ...

Its population growth makes it an engine of future global economic expansion, and by 2045, Africa will be home to over 25% of the world’s population. Large public universities have struggled to ...

The best universities in Africa span 19 countries, from Uganda in the east to Nigeria in the west, Morocco in the north to South Africa at the southernmost tip of the continent, according to the Times ...