Africa: Close to 50 Million Children Lack Access to School

About 50 million African children are currently denied school due to lack of investment on education by governments in the continent according to African Education Ministers. The Ministers said this at a gathering of the first extra-ordinary conference on Education in Addis Ababa, to evaluate the First Decade of Education For All (EFA)-1997 to 2006.They observed that a number of countries in Africa spend, on average, only less than 3 per cent of their GNP on education and less than 12 per cent of their budgets.