The UNICEF report shows that the number of children suicide bombers in the Lake Chad basin rose to 27 in the first quarter of 2017, as against 9 over the same period in 2016.
Under the partnership, the University is to include psychosocial support training, and conflict and disaster risk education modules into its academic programmes, in order to provide teachers who pass through the its education programmes with skills to professionally handle children who have experienced conflict.