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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Boko Haram Attacks Force 12,000 Pupils from Niger Schools |
| 2015-11-07 |
| [AnNahar] Some 150 schools with more than 12,000 pupils have been forced to close due to the deadly attacks in Niger's southeast Diffa region, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... said Friday. Most of the affected schools are near Lake Chad and on the banks of the Yobe River, which marks the border between Niger and Nigeria, the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement. The agency said 151 schools with a total of 12,631 pupils had closed due to "insecurity that has sparked the absence of teachers and panic in the population." "The pupils are now at camps for displaced people," the agency said, adding that there are no schools at the camps. Numerous local schools closed following Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... 's first attacks in the country in February, with more following suit following a recent surge in assaults by the Nigeria-based Islamist group, a local official told AFP. Thirteen people were killed and three injured in an attack on the Diffa village of Ala last week, local officials said. Niger's government has been working with the U.N. and other partners on a plan intended to allow children to go back to their studies in safer locations by the end of November. Boko Haram has carried out a string of deadly attacks in Diffa, one of its strongholds on the Niger-Nigeria border, as the army struggles to contain the group's regional advances. |
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