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One of Zambezia’s closed schools re-opens – Sabe, Mozambique
6:34 CAT | 03 Jun 2016
The Sabe complete primary school, in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, one of 17 schools in the province that closed down because of armed attacks by the Renamo rebel movement, has reopened, and at least 100 pupils have been able to resume their studies.
The school is in Morrumbala district, near the area where Renamo boasted last year that it was setting up a new military headquarters.
Speaking to AIM on Friday, in the provincial capital, Quelimane, the director of the Morrumbala district education services, Faria Alberto, guaranteed that the school had reopened. He said that currently government brigades are on the ground urging parents to send their children back to the school.
“We are encouraged because all public services have been completely reactivated in Sabe locality”, Alberto said. He attributed this to the government’s efforts to satisfy the needs of the public, particular access to education as a basic right.
The task of the education sector now, he added, is to ensure the reopening of the other 16 schools closed by Renamo, and to establish mechanisms to allow pupils to make up for lost time, ad recover the classes they have missed.
100 pupils back at school is a start – but the insecurity provoked by Renamo had closed several schools in Sabe, with a total of around 9,000 pupils.
Source: AIM
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