7000 Schools Went out of Service after the Tigray War and More is Yet to Come

7000 Schools Went out of Service after the Tigray War and More is Yet to Come

7000 schools got destroyed in Tigray and nothing but shattered dreams are in wait for millions of Ethiopian children, in light of the ongoing escalation of the conflict between the parties to the Ethiopian war, which had taken a heavy toll on all sectors of development in Ethiopia. Education was one of the sectors worst affected by was.

According to statistics, the number of schools that were destroyed during the Ethiopian war exceeds 7000, while 1.42 million students were deprived of their opportunity to education.

In the war-torn Tigray, students’ ability to receive education has become a luxury, in light of the country’s deteriorating human rights conditions, and the imminent famine.

The developmental efforts that have been made over decades to provide better education for Ethiopians, in line with SDG 4, have become critically threatened, in light of the Ethiopian Air Force’s continuous targeting of civilian objects, including educational buildings.

Amidst this, NGO Major Group- Africa stresses the need to respect the rules of international humanitarian law, according to which schools and educational institutions are considered civilian objects that must be protected from deliberate attacks, except in the case that they are being used by the warring parties for military purposes.

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