Cameroon has closed more than 60 schools on its northern border with Nigeria in a bid to save children and teaching staff from the increasing Boko Haram attacks.
The Cameroon basic education official, Mr Ousmanou Garga, said recent Boko Haram attacks have made schools unsafe and the students have to be educated in other schools very far from their own villages, especially as teachers in all the affected schools in the region bordering Borno State have fled.
The decade-long insurgency has claimed thousands of lives in Nigeria’s northeast with a significant number of casualties in the neighbouring countries of Chad and Cameroon adjoining Borno State.
