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Calls for DDR coordination over education

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    Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (NCDDR) have expressed the need to coordinate the activities of all agencies offering services in the area of education, the NCDDR reported in its bulletin on Friday.

    During a meeting at the Ministry of Education this week NCDDR Executive Secretary Francis Kaikai said that the ministry was a major stakeholder in the DDR programme as it was providing educational opportunities for ex-combatants.

    Some 12 percent of the estimated 45,000 former combatants are children who are expected to be enrolled in educational institutions, Kaikai said. He added that in its reintegration drive the NCDDR intends to make good use of the technical expertise available at the Ministry and promised that it would stay in the forefront of the DDR programme, the bulletin said.

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