Dar es Salaam (Halbeeg News) – Kenya has said that it will train 1000 teachers from Somalia to teach at various levels of school in order to promote education in the horn of Africa nation.
Kenyan President William Ruto made the announcement on the sidelines of the African Heads of State Summit on Human Capital in Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania after holding meeting with Somalia’s prime minister, Hamze Abdi Barre.
Barre said the federal government of Somalia will invest in education as a priority in helping to set a strong foundation towards rectifying some of the problems bedeviling the country.
The government has already embarked on mass recruitment of teachers who will help curb the acute shortage across the country. The move, PM Barre said, is geared towards ensuring education is accessible to all as part of the constitutional requirement.
Early this year, Somali government announced that the country would hire a record 3,000 new teachers to try to bridge a wide education gap. The move follows a four-fold increase in the Somali ministry of education’s budget for 2023.
Access to education in Somalia remains among the lowest in the world. The U.N. Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says three million Somali children are out of school.
For three decades, Somalia has struggled with a dysfunctional education system following the civil war in the 90s and the rise of terrorism in the new millennium, which has left so many schools dilapidated.
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