Data released by the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) indicate that the terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado affected about 123,000 primary and general secondary school students in the 2021 school year.

According to MINEDH spokesperson Gina Guibunda in an interview with AIM, the attacks, which broke out in October 2017, culminated in the destruction of 43 schools, 104 classrooms, 30 administrative blocks and five buildings of the District Services for Education Youth and Technology.

"We have data indicating that terrorism has affected, in Cabo Delgado province, about 123,000 students," the spokeswoman said.

The terrorists also murdered eight teachers, four of them in Mocímboa da Praia and the rest in Muidumbe, Palma, Macomia and Nangade.

Meanwhile, Guibunda said that while the northern districts of Cabo Delgado suffered from the terrorists' incursions, some 948 elementary school and 78 general secondary schools were operating normally in the city of Pemba and in the southern districts of the province.

The governor also referred that in 2021 more than a million students were enrolled, but only less than a million attended school. "The fact is due to families that have moved not only within the province, but to other neighboring provinces of Cabo Delgado.