Education at risk for more than 3.5 million school-aged children in the Lake Chad Basin
DAKAR/NEW YORK, 3 September 2018 – Ongoing conflict, displacement and fear of attacks on schools is putting the education of more than 3.5 million children at risk in the Lake Chad Basin, with almost 1,000 schools closed or non-functional due to violence or unrest in northeast Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger, UNICEF warned today. “Where there…