Burkina Faso: Armed Islamists Attack Education

Publisher:
Human Rights Watch
Publication Date:
26 May 2020
Tags:
Burkina Faso, Arms and Military Affairs, Education, NGOs and Civil Society

A Human Rights Watch report documents scores of education-related attacks by armed Islamist groups in six of the country's 13 regions between 2017 and 2020. The groups have killed, beaten, abducted, and threatened education professionals, intimidated students, terrorized parents into keeping children out of school and damaged, destroyed, and looted schools.

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