GENEVA - More than 14,000 schools have had to close across West and Central Africa due to violence and insecurity, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA has reported.
OCHA said that by June this year, 2.8 million children - including many who are displaced - had been left without access to education, from Mali in the west to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the east.
Latest aid assessments indicate a volatile humanitarian situation in the region with security incidents affecting education
