More than half of all schools remain closed in Borno State, epicentre of the Boko Haram crisis in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI/DAKAR/NEW YORK, 29 September 2017 – The crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria means that over 57 per cent of schools in Borno, the worst-hit state, are closed, even as the new school year begins. Since 2009, across the northeast, over 2,295 teachers have been killed and 19,000 have been displaced. Almost 1,400…