Calling on Africa to ensure girls go back to school post-COVID-19 closures

With schools reopening across Africa after the COVID-19 related closures, the African Union International Centre for Girls’ and Women’s Education in Africa (AU/CIEFFA) launched #AfricaEducatesHer, a campaign to bring awareness to the issues hindering girls and women from accessing education during the COVID-19 pandemic and a rallying call to take positive action now to guarantee girls returning to school as they gradually reopen. October 16, 2020 by Rita Bissoonauth, African Union International Center for Girls and Women’s Education in Africa