South West : Encouraging School Attendance

As a corollary to the socio-political crisis hitting the North West and South West Regions since 2016, education has remained the weeping child. Its woes include suffering from lock-downs, physical attacks on pupils, students and teachers, maiming and killing school goers, burning of infrastructures and outright threats on educational activities.
To better monitor the situation of school attendance one month into school resumption for the 2021-2022 academic year in the South West Region, experts of the Regional Delegation of Basic Education have mapped out the area into geographical green, yellow and red zones. The green stands for fertile school attendance without hindrances, the yellow portrays where school attendance is occasionally acceptable and the red zones are where there is no schooling activity of any kind.
Education is highlighted as a full-impact absorbing sector of the socio-political upheaval. Most of the grievances aired in the early days of the crisis were centred on teaching and learning needs. The slate was filled from the tertiary and secondary down to basic education. Government’s implementation plan to satisfy the demands from professionals of education borrowed from the pace of the Major National Dialogue held in Yaoundé from 30 September to 4 October, 2019.
Flowing from the exigency, a compendium of Government action was unveiled during the last visit of the Prime Minister, Head of Government to Buea (21 through 24 September, 2021) whereby major requirements...