Covid-19 and conflict forced over 12 million children from school across Africa’s Central Sahel region

It is now the 2020/21 school year, but it is taking much longer than usual for 22 million students in Egypt to go Back to School. Lockdown started with a storm alert on March 13, 2020; soon after that, school closures were extended for the COVID-19 pandemic that is keeping almost 1 billion students out of school all around the world even now. Every country, Egypt included, has struggled to maintain some level of learning and progress.

This new school year, starting on October 17, 2020, comes with a reminder of Egypt’s score in Learning Poverty, a study of how much children learn at school in their country: It concluded that about 70% of children aged 10 in Egypt couldn’t read and comprehend…………………………………………………………………………….