Students attend class at a public school in Mali in 2013. In an urgent report, UNICEF revealed that more than 9,000 schools have been shut down as of June this year in eight countries; Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Niger and Nigeria due to intensifying conflict.

First published in the August 23, 2019, 9:58 p.m. edition

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