UNICEF says two million children and teenagers are out of school in Yemen as new academic year starts amid war
A boy rides on the back of a donkey as he collects water from a well at a camp for internally displaced people in Khamis of Hudaida province, Yemen on August 31, 2019.
The education of a further 3.7 million children is at risk as teachers' salaries have not been paid in more than two years, UNICEF said in a statement. One in five schools in the country can no longer be used as a direct result of the conflict that has devastated Yemen's already fragile education system, the UN agency says.
"They lose the opportunity to develop and grow in a caring and stimulating environment, ultimately becoming trapped in a life of poverty and hardship."Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have been killed since Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened in March 2015 in support of the beleaguered government after the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels captured the capital Sanaa.
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