@ED2030AfricaCOVID 19: how Senegal intends to ensure #LearningNeverStops
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By Rokhaya Fall Diawara and Tidiane Sall, UNESCO
The spread of COVID-19 is a growing worry for Africa. Among the 47 African countries that have closed their schools and universities to more than 280 million African children, 10 have not yet identified a single case of the virus. These closures will hold back education even further on a continent where already more than 200 million children and adolescents were not learning. The government of Senegal closed its schools on March 16 – one of the first to do so on the continent. What measures have been taken to ensure that learning doesn’t stop?