16/06/2017
Making Africa?s schools safe in the midst of war
The Nigerian Defense Ministry official described how the authorities had built ditches around schools and installed security lighting and set up roadblocks to keep Boko Haram fighters from invading schools and carrying off students and teachers. She explained how the government has moved thousands of students in the most heavily-affected areas to safer areas to allow them to finish their studies free from fear and attack. I heard this account in November in Ethiopia?s capital, Addis Ababa, during a gathering of representatives of the armed forces and ministries of defense and education from 14 African countries. This unlikely group of education actors and military men and women had come...
