In an interview with Radi Okapi, Mwaba added the new school year will start on coming Monday, September 4, after negotiations with the entire teachers’ union which called days ago for their respective July-and-August salaries, among other demands.

However, the opening of the new school year is hypothetical in several territories given insecurity, poverty of population as well as poor conditions at refugee camps.

Civil society activists in North Kivu noted that the school supply market failed to attract attaention to people a few days before the start of the new school year.

Meanwhile, the humanitarian coordinator in the DRC Bruno Lemarquis drew attention to the fact that over 6,000 children in the displaced center of Kigonze, in Bunia, Ituri province, are not ready to go back to school.

According to statistics, only 800 children have access to school there, as there is one school, but it does not have the capacity to all school-age children living in the camp.

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