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| Children stand next to a UNICEF tent in the refugee camp in Assaga, southeast Niger ©Boureima Hama (AFP) |
The Boko Haram insurgency
has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children's agency
reported on Tuesday, highlighting fears that a lack of education will fuel
further radicalism in and around Nigeria. Over 2,000 schools are closed across
Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, while hundreds of others have been attacked,
looted, or set on fire by Boko Haram jihadists in their quest to create an
independent Islamic state, said UNICEF.
