Senegal: Region’s 100% school enrolment under threat

Nationally 58 percent of Senegalese children attend primary school, but in the troubled Casamance region nearly 100 percent of boys and girls attend class, according to estimates by the United Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF). But that impressive record is under threat as 20 years of instability pulls this farming region into ever deepening poverty. Find this story at the IRINnews.org website.