Most Children in CAR Not in School
With extensive damage to 65 percent of schools, seven out of 10 primary school students have not returned to class since the December 2012 outbreak of violence, a Unicef survey of 11 regions of the country shows.
Displaced people outside a church (file photo).
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Central African Republic:
Millions of Children Denied Education Due to Conflict - UN Warns
UN News, 23 September 2013
Some 28.5 million children in countries affected by conflict are being denied access to learning, with tens of thousands of schools attacked or occupied by armed forces,… Read more »
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Central African Republic:
Children's Education Devastated By Conflict, UN Says
UN News, 23 April 2013
Calling for quick action by authorities in the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today warned that education was becoming another casualty… Read more »
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Central African Republic:
Children Bear Brunt of Crisis
UNIRIN, 25 April 2013
Sporadic armed clashes, looting of orphanages, recruitment into armed groups, and widespread school closures have made life perilous for children in the Central African Republic… Read more »
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Central African Republic:
The Children in Need - Humanitarian Crisis in the CAR
ThinkAfricaPress, 3 September 2013
Africa's forgotten crisis in the Central African Republic threatens the country's most vulnerable. Read more »