Teachers still avoid schools in the North

Hundreds of schools activities have been highly disrupted during the school year because of the raids and kidnappings attributed to insurgent fighters, in the Far North of Cameroon.

School resumption last month was said to be a bit better, but there are still some challenges, one of our special envoy in Kolofata reported.

Upon our arrival, students chanted a song in praise of brave students, the song also extolled the virtues of discipline.

This lacked a little spontaneity "they bring you here to illustrate the lull and the return to life", disclosed a sub-officer of the rapid intervention battalion with a serious and proud look.

The city was still hit by a double suicide bombing mid-September, but the barracks is 500 metres from the school. "Not all institutions at the border area, under tension for over two years, benefit from such military protection, noted Gadji Morrassanda, a school teacher in Kolofata.

Many schools in the surrounding villages have not resumed, especially in the villages near the border. Teachers are really afraid to go there. For a teacher who comes from Yaoundé for instance, as soon as he sees a problem, he abandons the students to secure himself".