Monday, November 17, is the reopening date for public schools in Borno State, Nigeria. But only primary schools will be reopened after their premises have been fumigated to ward off snakes and rodents. Many secondary schools have been occupied by people displaced by insurgency. Until the IDPs (internally displaced persons) are relocated, the secondary schools will remain closed.
Borno is the home base of Boko Haram, a terrorist sect that has killed almost 20, 000 people in five years.
