Mauritania: demonstration in front of the presidency for private education
The headquarters of the Nouakchott teacher training college in the capital, April 1, 2019. Carmen Abd Ali / AFP
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Teachers and school principals are calling for financial aid pledged by the government to help the private education sector and mitigate the impact of the coronavirus epidemic.
A demonstration was organized by the Union of Promoters of Private Sector Education.
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With our correspondent in Nouakchott
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Salem Mejbour
Private education
has been seriously affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Classes did not resume until September 1, after a six-month suspension.
A period during which the teachers were not paid.
Boubacar Diop runs the Mame Demba Diop school.
He was among the first to come and protest to ask for a state grant for the private school: “
From March until now we have five to six months without pay.
Our rents are not paid and we have no government subsidy.
We would now like the Mauritanian school to be subsidized, like all the schools in the vicinity.
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Special fund
And Boubacar Diop to cite the situations in Morocco, Senegal and Mali.
The demonstrators also demand the payment of the special fund,
allocated by the State
to the private sector within the framework of the pandemic, explains Med Keita, member of the Union of Promoters of Private Sector Education: “
It is planned the distribution of 1.5 billion [ouguiyas] for private schools.
To date, we have not obtained this money.
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The Ministry of National Education has promised special aid to around 500 private schools, which will be phased in over the next three years.
However, the union asks that this aid be paid immediately.
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