AFP: Interview with Yan St-Pierre – Boko Haram violence keeping a million children out of school, says Unicef

December 21, 2015

AFP interviewed Yan St-Pierre on Unicef’s statement that “Boko Haram violence keeping a million children out of school”.

Eradicating Boko Haram will not solve the education issue in the region, said Yan St-Pierre, terrorism analyst at Modern Security Consulting Group.

“There was already a problem with getting kids to school on a regular basis that simply became worse once Boko Haram emerged,” said St-Pierre, speaking from Berlin.

“In so-called liberated areas it’s been difficult to restore functioning infrastructure,” said St-Pierre, “that’s why we’re talking about a generational problem now, the structural problems, the financial problems, this is going to take years to fix.”

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