Nigeria cannot build safe schools in unsafe communities

Nigeria's Safe Schools Initiative faces a fundamental challenge: it can only secure the classroom, not the community around it. Al Jazeera reports that the program keeps falling short precisely because security threats exist beyond school property lines. Protecting students means confronting the broader insecurity affecting the neighborhoods they travel through.

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