Nearly half of war-torn Afghanistan’s 18,000 schools lack proper buildings and an estimated 3.7 million school-aged children are still out of school — despite massive investment in the country’s education sector, the World Bank says.
The report comes as representatives of the Afghan government and the
Taliban hold intra-Afghan peace negotiations in Qatar.
The negotiations are meant to map out Afghanistan’s future after a U.S.-Taliban peace deal signed in February.