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Schools reopening in Afghanistan

While over six million students go to 9,500 schools in Afghanistan, their safety remains a concern. Parwin Faiz/IRIN
    KABUL

    At least 240 schools have reopened mostly in the volatile south and southeast of Afghanistan over the past 18 months, the Ministry of Education (MoE) has reported.



    The MoE said 18 schools have been reopened in Ghazni Province, central Afghanistan, over the past few months.



    “Almost all of the 456 schools in Ghazni Province are now functioning and we expect 50,000 extra students will be enrolled in 2010,” Abdul Sabour Ghofrani, an MoE spokesman, told IRIN. He said the breakthrough was achieved with the support of local people, including religious leaders and tribal elders.



    Hundreds of schools were closed in these areas because of attacks on them in 2007 and 2008, according to the government and aid agencies.



    About five million school-age children do not go to school because of conflict, lack of schools or socio-economic problems, President Hamid Karzai said on 6 March.



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