Africa
On 28 and 29 September 2016, the Kenya Scouts Association (KSA) underwent a second round of 3rd party GSAT assessment after having failed the initial assessment in early 2012. This time round the NSO attained an overwhelming score of 91%. This comes...
Dear Friends, We are happy to share with you the October 2016 issue of Kudumail, the Africa Scout Region newsletter. Enjoy your reading! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Dear Friends, We are happy to share with you the September 2016 issue of Kudumail, the Africa Scout Region newsletter. Enjoy your reading! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
A Delegation of six Scouts will represent WOSM at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UNFCCC, from 7-18 November 2016, Marrakech, Morocco. So Scouting will have a strong voice during the United Nations Conference on...
The 1st of November was proclaimed and instituted as The Africa Youth Day on the occasion of the African Youth Charter adoption in the Executive Council Decision of the Banjul Summit 2006. Africa Youth Day is a day set aside every year to promote the...
This weekend JOTA-JOTI broke a number of Scouting records, becoming the biggest Scouting event by participant numbers that the world has ever seen. JOTA-JOTI had over 11,000 groups registered, some of these with over 500 participants! The final...
Was yours one of them? Our radios crackled to life yesterday evening and we connected almost instantly with our first contact in the USA. Since then the World Scout Bureau has talked to 7 more countries on our radios, and 6 more via Scoutlink (whilst...
The Tanzania Scouts Association & UK Hampshire scouts have entered into a partnership in which Hampshire scouts will volunteer to renovate the Tanzania Scout National Training Centre known as Bahati Camp located in Morogoro region. About 115 Scouts...
Scouts will be at the UN General Assembly between 16 and 26 September. The team of young people from across the world will be representing World Scouting at meetings in and around the UN Headquarters. Topics will range across sustainable development...
As our colleague Mercyline Busolo will proceed on maternity leave in October 2016, we have hired the services of Beryl A. Okuku, to temporarily relieve her until she resumes work in February 2017. Beryl has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Finance...