Authorities report more than 500 pregnancy cases in Secondary Schools in Northeast Benin

Report from Cotonou reveals that more than 500 pregnancies were recorded in Secondary Schools of Benin’s Northeastern department of Borgou during the 2019-2020 school year.

Altogether, 547 out of 36,487 school girls regularly registered were pregnant during the 2019-2020 school year as against 431 cases in 2018-2019. Thomas Adam, a Representative of the child protection department of Secondary education and professional and technical training ministry, attributed the increase in the cases of pregnancies to the long cessation of classes observed during the coronavirus pandemic.

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