Abductions Shutter Schools in Nigeria’s Education-Starved North
- Only half of children of school-going age are attending class
- Disruption of education compounds Nigeria’s insecurity woes
A deserted classroom at the Government Girls Secondary School, the day after the abduction of over 300 schoolgirls.
Photographer: Kola Sulaimon/AFP/Getty Images
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A string of mass abductions is disrupting education in Africa’s most populous country, which already ranks among places with one of the highest number of out-of-school children globally.