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A spike in violence in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has forced 540 schools to close in the past year, a new Save the Children International analysis has said.
“Since the beginning of 2024, violence has forced about 190 schools to close their doors,” SCI said, citing an analysis of data from the education cluster — a coordination mechanism made up of education actors that assess needs and prioritise humanitarian responses. “We played football at recess, then the bell rang, and we went into the classroom. Only a few minutes later, we saw the armed men coming out from the eucalyptus trees. They came to our school firing bullets. I heard explosions and other loud noises. We fled, without even thinking, everyone fled into another direction,” SCI quoted a child who witnessed an attack at school.
The current wave of violence follows a tumultuous year of heightened outbreaks of conflict in North Kivu in 2023, when intensified fighting in the east of the country displaced more than 1 million people, including at least 500,000 children.
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