Primary schoolchildren in Nimule, South Sudan study in a makeshift classroom in this picture taken in 2012. Some of South Sudan’s 6,000 schools opened for a new academic year in February 2018 -- but the government does not know how many. PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI | NMG
Some of South Sudan’s 6,000 schools opened for a new academic year this month -- but the government does not know how many.
Teachers have not been paid. Many of them, and their pupils, are on the run after four years of fighting. In the capital, classrooms are filled with hungry displaced families.
