School closures in the Sahel double in the last two years due to growing insecurity – UNICEF
DAKAR/NEW YORK, 28 February 2019 – Continued and growing insecurity in the Sahel region has forced nearly 2,000 schools in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to close or become non-operational, UNICEF said today. This marks a two-fold increase in the number of education facilities forcibly closed or left non-operational since 2017. Threats to education…