{"id":4873,"date":"2019-08-26T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T06:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"school-closures-triple-in-central-and-western-africa-as-education-comes-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/26\/school-closures-triple-in-central-and-western-africa-as-education-comes-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"School Closures Triple In Central And Western Africa As Education Comes Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By UN News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data gathered by UNICEF to June indicates that 9,272\nschools&nbsp;have been&nbsp;closed in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Central\nAfrican Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Niger and Nigeria\nas a result of insecurity&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;three times&nbsp;the number&nbsp;at the\nend of 2017.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSchools are being shut down,\u201d&nbsp;according to UNICEF\nDeputy Executive Director, Charlotte Petri&nbsp;Gornitzka.&nbsp;\u201cOver the past\ntwo years, the number of schools that have been shut down has tripled; over\n9,000 schools due to the insecurity have been attacked.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNICEF report notes how spreading\ninsecurity&nbsp;across north-west and south-west Cameroon has left more than\n4,400 schools forcibly closed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Burkina Faso, more than 2,000 schools are closed,\nalong with more than 900 in Mali,&nbsp;owing\nto&nbsp;increasing&nbsp;violence&nbsp;in&nbsp;both countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the central\nSahel&nbsp;region,&nbsp;moreover,&nbsp;Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have\nwitnessed a six-fold increase in school closures&nbsp;owing&nbsp;to attacks and\nthreats of violence in just over two years, from 512 in April\n2017,&nbsp;to&nbsp;more than&nbsp;3,000&nbsp;by&nbsp;June&nbsp;this\nyear.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>School closures in the&nbsp;four countries affected by\ncrisis in the Lake Chad Basin \u2013 Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria\n\u2013&nbsp;remained at around&nbsp;1,000&nbsp;between the end of 2017 and June\n2019.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/08\/1044821\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN News Data gathered by UNICEF to June indicates that 9,272 schools&nbsp;have been&nbsp;closed in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Niger&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}