European Union assigns 30 Million Euros for basic education in Sudan

A Sudanese girl listens to her teacher as she attends a class along with over 150 other girls at Rumbek primary school in Southern Sudan April 19, 2004.

KHARTOUM, Feb 12, 2005 (SUNA) –The European Union (EU) has allocated 30 euros for boosting the basic education in Sudan toward enforcing the recently signed peace agreement between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).

The federal Minister of Education, Ahmed Babiker Nahar, made this declaration, after receiving an EU work team for educational support programmes.

The minister affirmed that Sudan is confronted with the problems of educational dropout, poverty control, the improvement the educational environment and lack of food, adding that the EU support will help in the educational capacity-building.

He reviewed the problems facing education at rural and nomadic areas; besides support to boarding-houses at schools, provision of school textbooks, students’ seating and the rehabilitation of educational infrastructures.