Children protest teachers’ strike in West Darfur
The refusal to work by teachers at the basic schools in Kendebe camp, West Darfur, has entered its fifth day, as they protest an attack by militants against teachers on Sunday. Their pupils have demanded the resumption of studies.The coordinator of the camps in Sirba locality told Radio Dabanga that the militants attacked because they believed that the teachers were behind the boycott against the registrations for the national electoral process. Internally displaced people in the locality have refused to join the registration process for Sudan’s elections, planned to be held next April.He explained that the teachers’ stop sparked basic school pupils to organise a sit-in in front of the house of the school’s head master, demanding the resumption of studies.File photo: Pupils at a school in West Darfur (UN Link)Related: West Darfur displaced boycott elections registration (21 November 2014)
The refusal to work by teachers at the basic schools in Kendebe camp, West Darfur, has entered its fifth day, as they protest an attack by militants against teachers on Sunday. Their pupils have demanded the resumption of studies.
The coordinator of the camps in Sirba locality told Radio Dabanga that the militants attacked because they believed that the teachers were behind the boycott against the registrations for the national electoral process. Internally displaced people in the locality have refused to join the registration process for Sudan’s elections, planned to be held next April.
He explained that the teachers’ stop sparked basic school pupils to organise a sit-in in front of the house of the school’s head master, demanding the resumption of studies.
File photo: Pupils at a school in West Darfur (UN Link)
Related: West Darfur displaced boycott elections registration (21 November 2014)
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