© UNICEF/NYHQ2008-0680/Susan MarkiszUNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman addresses UN Security Council members on the third anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1612.

By Yvette Bivigou

MONROVIA, Liberia, 27 February 2008 – UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman has just completed a visit here to gain firsthand insights into the situation of children in post-conflict Liberia.

© UNICEF/NYHQ2008-0171/George McBeanShoes are piled near a group of children attending a UNICEF-supported temporary school in a camp for the displaced in the western town of Nakuru

By James Elder

NAKURU, Kenya, 19 February 2008 – When Yvonne’s family fled the violence that ravaged their village, the eight-year-old lost her home, her precious plastic necklace, her school uniform and her classroom.

By Adolphus Scott

MONROVIA, Liberia, 4 January 2008 – “I was big when I started school,” says Benetta Nyemah, a 15-year-old student who attends primary school here in the capital of Liberia. “During the war, my parents left Monrovia and we went into our village to hide. There was no school in the village, and we used to work on the farm all day.”

Sudan Cattle Camps
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MARIAL BEK, Southern Sudan, 7 August 2007 – Progress has come quickly to Southern Sudan. Two years after a historic peace agreement ended Africa’s longest-running civil war, urban roads are congested with traffic and classrooms that once lacked students are now overflowing.

© UNICEF/NYHQ2004-1179/Roger LeMoyneA girl hands in schoolwork to her teacher at a makeshift school in a camp for displaced people in the village of Palabek near the Sudan border

NEW YORK, USA, 15 February 2007 – UNICEF Uganda and its partners have put education in the spotlight this week with the launch of their ‘Go to school, back to school, stay in school’ campaign to help 1.3 million children get primary education in the country’s conflict-affected north and northeast.

The following reports detail trips and updates submitted by UNICEF education programme staff.

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