School closings in sub-Saharan Africa kept 32 million children out of school
Children in sub-Saharan Africa is under siege from all directions since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. School closings came at an enormous cost to children and youth in Africa. Mid-year school closures due to COVID-19 surges kept 32 million children (roughly 40%) out of school in Southern and Eastern Africa, on top of the estimated 37 million children who were out of school prior to the pandemic.
Also, children across all regions in SSA faced significant challenges in accessing and benefiting from distance learning, learning technologies, and materials, especially in the rural areas and conflict areas.
In this context, NGOs Major Group for Africa expresses its concern about the high school drop-out rate of children in sub-Saharan Africa. And assures that sub-Saharan African governments must hurry up to set of development policies to improve education, as education rates contribute to eradicating poverty and reducing unemployment rates.
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