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Education activities in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar have been suspended amid funding shortage, putting the education of around 2.5 lakh children at risk.

UNICEF Cox’s Bazar Chief of Field Office Angela Kearney and Save the Children Director Golam Mostofa yesterday wrote to the office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) in Cox’s Bazar.

“The education sector in Cox’s Bazar would like to inform you that due to unavoidable circumstances, the sector is in agreement with the suggestion to close the learning facilities in the camps with immediate effect,” the letter says.

Operations of the learning centres in the camps will remain closed until further notice, it said.

The development comes after hundreds of teachers from the host community blocked Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf road for hours yesterday, protesting termination of contracts

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