Schooling

About 2.3 million children remain out of school in northern Ethiopia despite last November’s peace agreement ending two years of conflict with reconstruction of damaged buildings yet to commence, said Save the Children, calling for urgent funding to help re-open classrooms. Across the country more than 3.5 million children are out of school - or 1 in every 16 children* - in what has been called one of the world’s worst education crises. Recent data revealed massive damage to schools across conflict-affected areas of Tigray, Amhara, and Afar in northern Ethiopia, according to the latest report from the Ethiopia Education…