South Sudan

An education system in crisis

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February 2014, Lakes State, South Sudan: Mingkaman in South Sudan's Lakes State is home to one of the largest groups of internally displaced people in South Sudan. An estimated 92,000 are living there, most having fled violence in neighbouring Jonglei State. © UNICEF/Knowles-Coursin

More than half a million children have fled their homes in South Sudan since conflict first broke out in December 2013. Most have stopped going to school and aid groups have warned of the long-term consequences of a continued disruption to education.

In Mingkaman, Awerial County, in Lakes State for example, many displaced children are out of school. They are among about 92,000 people who have settled in Mingkaman – the largest concentration of internally displaced people in South Sudan. Most fled here following fighting in neighbouring Jonglei State.

Humanitarian organizations are running emergency education programmes comprising life, psychosocial, literacy and numeracy skills.

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