Schools across South Sudan’s Northern Bahr al Ghazal state will reopen on 2 February 2015, according to State Education Minister Valentino Achak Deng.
In a Tuesday interview, Deng told Radio Tamazuj that both primary and secondary schools will resume on this date as scheduled by the state ministry.
However, Garang Deng Kuol, the chairperson of Teachers Union in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, said: “What we know when the schools were closed for the holidays they were told that the reopening day will be on the 5th February 2015.”
Deng said he was not informed of any changes to the calendar, adding that school began last year on 4 February.
File photo: Aweil Secondary School