School closures in West and Central Africa triple since 2017
DAKAR/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 23 August 2019 – More than 1.9 million children have been forced out of school in West and Central Africa due to an upsurge in attacks and threats of violence against public schools, students and teachers across the region, UNICEF said today in a new report. As of June 2019, 9,272 schools were closed or had become non-…