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Equatorial Guinea updates textbooks unchanged since 2006

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Equatorial Guinea is moving ahead with updating and reprinting its school textbooks, whose last edition dates back to 2006. The vice-president met the prime minister and education officials in Malabo to review the project’s progress, according to Ahora EG.

Equatorial Guinea’s vice-president chaired a meeting in Malabo on Thursday on updating and reprinting school textbooks, whose last edition dates back to 2006. The prime minister and Education Ministry officials attended, according to Ahora EG.

The Minister of State for Education, Clemente Engonga Nguema Onguene, presented the progress of the work at the meeting, reports Ahora EG. The review of the project comes after the Equatorial Guinean education minister presented his report to MPs on 1 October.

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