Boko Haram-related violence and attacks on civilian population have forced more than a million children out of school across Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) said in a statement Tuesday.
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Across Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, over 2,000 schools remain closed due to conflicts, UNICEF said. Some schools have been looted or set on fire by the militant group whose name means “Western education is sinful”.
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As the Nigerian military wins back territory in the country’s northeast, some schools have been able to reopen, according to UNICEF, yet many are overcrowded and lack the necessary supplies for children to learn. Greater than 400 schools have reopened since Oct.in Nigeria’s Borno state, birthplace of the six-year insurgency waged by Boko Haram, greater than 18 many months after education was halted within the wake of an attack on a school in neighboring Yobe state which killed 59 college students.
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At least 20,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million made homeless since the beginning of the Boko Haram militancy in Nigeria.
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Boko Haram, which was originally based in Nigeria, has intensified its operations in neighbouring countries, Thomson Reuters Foundation reported.
“The longer (the children) do not go to school, the more they risk being abused, abducted and recruited by armed groups”, said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa.
According to UNICEF, the one million now kept out of school by the group adds to a total of 11 million children from the four countries who were out of primary school even before the group launched its war against government structures.
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About 200 of them are still detained by Boko Haram. In April past year, the Islamist group stormed a school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, abducting 276 school girls.
