By Busari Kabirat
According to the UN Aid Coordination Office, says due to violence and insecurity, no fewer than 14,000 schools have been closed across West and Central Africa.
This was made known by the commission that from Mali in the west to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the east, 2.8 million children, inclusive of the displaced ones had been left without access to education and which the latest aid assessments indicating a volatile humanitarian situation in the region with security incidents affecting education rising a startling 103 per cent from March to June, compared with the year beginning.
In accordance with the UN aid office, a slight increase in the number of schools closing from March to June, compared with the previous three-month period, and a small additional number of internally displaced people and refugees, adding to pressure on services highlighting that a huge lack of funding continues to hamper the humanitarian response, noting that only quarter of children in areas that are affected have access to education in the latest period under review, compared with one in two earlier in the year.
