"[b]etween June 2024 and June 2025 alone, the number of closed schools rose from 14,364 to 14,829, disrupting the education of more than 3 million children."
"In a country [where] poverty is multidimensional and people will not be able to break the cycle of poverty anytime soon, the number of out-of-school children and the rate of unemployment is skyrocketing, because teachers and school administrators cannot continue teaching."
"In the Northeast for example, so many schools shut down at the height of the [Boko Haram] insurgency. And the reality is that a lot of those schools never reopened, and they probably never will. Many children who were pushed out of the system never went back"
Nearly 15,000 schools in West and Central Africa were closed by mid-2025. Between June 2024 and June 2025, closed schools rose from 14,364 to 14,829. More than 3 million children's education was disrupted, with experts warning official figures understate the scale. Estimates place out-of-school children at over 5 million, and nearly 500 schools closed in Nigeria alone. Insecurity and conflict, especially in Nigeria and Cameroon, forced millions to relocate and prevented many schools from reopening. Multidimensional poverty and rising unemployment compound the crisis as teachers and administrators cannot continue teaching and many children remain out of school for years.
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