Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection called on the Yemeni Ministers of Education and Interior, as well as the governor of Ibb, to intervene urgently to enable more than 800 children to return to school and to protect them from the dangers of tribal revenge.
The organization said it had sent formal memoranda after a tribal conflict escalated in Al-Ardan area of Al Udayn district, injuring several students at Al-Anwar Secondary School and causing classes to stop for around twenty days. According to Seyaj’s Monitoring and Advocacy Center, the revenge conflict had effectively been transferred to the students themselves because the school serves children from both neighboring tribes.
Seyaj urged local authorities and community leaders to stop the violence completely and safeguard children’s right to education. It also warned that similar conflict-related targeting of education is affecting many parts of Yemen and contributing to rising illiteracy and school dropout rates, especially in rural areas.
