{"id":6303,"date":"2013-03-04T06:16:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T06:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/unicef-says-1-4-of-drc-s-children-not-in-school\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T06:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T06:16:33","slug":"unicef-says-1-4-of-drc-s-children-not-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/unicef-says-1-4-of-drc-s-children-not-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF Says 1\/4 of DRC&#8217;s Children not in School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund says more than a quarter of Congolese children are not going to school, including 1.3 million in the mineral-rich Katanga province.}}<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF says more than half of children start school late. It says three times more children are out of school in rural areas than urban.<\/p>\n<p>The agency blamed, in part, low income and educational levels of some parents, early child marriage and child labor in agriculture and mining.<\/p>\n<p>But it also said children are being kept out of school by insufficient funding for education and not enough places at schools.<\/p>\n<p>It quoted education minister Maker Mwangu promising that Congo&#8217;s government will immediately invest $40 million in building schools.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF helped fund the study conducted by Burkina Faso&#8217;s University of Ouagadougou and published Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund says more than a quarter of Congolese children are not going to school, including 1.3 million in the mineral-rich Katanga province.}} UNICEF says more than half of children start school late. It says three times more children are out of school in rural areas than urban. The agency blamed, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}