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The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the importance attached to Education for all (EFA) mark an important turning point in the elaboration of a common initiative, which aims to improve living conditions of people worldwide. Its ambition is to eliminate misery and to increase wealth. The means to achieve this goal focus essentially on education, which has become a goal in itself: reduce illiteracy, ensure global access to basic schooling and promote equal opportunities for all. Through education other objectives can be targeted, such as promoting poverty reduction through gainful employment, gender equality, and sustainable development and partnerships for development. This paper aims to present the situation in subSaharan Africa (SSA) since the end of the 1990s and the international focus on these great programs.