Fatema Murtaza Hassanali, a student of The Aga Academy, Mombasa has achieved the maximum 45 points score in the IB exams held in May 2015.

Edufrica reports, "For the first time in Africa and indeed the world, International Baccalaureate (IB), the world’s most prestigious university entrance qualification, will be taught in Kiswahili. This feat was achieved by Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa, Kenya."

Last week, nine Aga Khan Academy [Mombasa] students helped construct one of the biggest sand dams in a village at Isivuni river in Masii location," reports The Star's correspondent Andrew Mbuva. "It's a culture in our school where the finalists in every year are engaged in a school project called 'The Leadership Programme'. In it the students are required to embark on a community and service project and for our case we chose doing a sand dam," a student told the journalist.