Slim progress on education is set back as soldiers requisition school buildings and fighting forces children to flee,but some are returning to the classroomAt the close of a school day in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, and young girls in light brown uniforms walk domestic,chatting in the late-afternoon sun. The scene should be repeated all over the country but over the past year and a half the civil war has forced hundreds of thousands of children out of school nationwide.
Education is one of the hidden casualties of South Sudan’s latest conflict, which began in December 2013 and shows limited sign of ending. School buildings have been requisitioned by soldiers, and pupils and their teachers have been press-ganged into armed groups,and an estimated 400000 children have been forced out of school. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com