...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, Mali and Niger have disrupted schooling for more than 400,000 young people, the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
' children's agency Unicef said Thursday.
Nearly 2,000 schools have had to close, a doubling since 2017, it said in a statement.
"Direct attacks on schools, teachers and schoolchildren themselves, and the military occupation of places of learning are serious violations of children’s rights," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
"When children miss out on school ‐- especially in times of conflict -‐ not only are they unable to learn the skills they need to build peaceful and prosperous communities, they also become vulnerable to horrific forms of exploitation including sexual abuse and forced recruitment into gangs."
Northern and eastern Burkina Faso, north and central Mali, and the west and southeast of Niger are particularly unstable due to the activities of armed jihadist groups, according to local NGOs.
The armed forces in all three countries are struggling to contain the jihadists, including 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...fighters, who attack businesses and livestock, torch schools and evict villagers, according to the NGOs.