Cameroon’s Nyong-et-So’o holds strategic forum to improve schools
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- Education stakeholders in Cameroon’s Nyong-et-So’o department will meet in Mbalmayo on Sept. 1 and 2, 2026.
- The forum will examine school violence, harassment, sexual abuse, drug use, weakened parental authority and the breakdown of dialogue between teachers and families.
- Organizers will hold the discussions under the theme, “Together, let’s make education the engine of development.”
Education officials and specialists in Cameroon’s Nyong-et-So’o department will gather in Mbalmayo for two days to confront problems affecting schools.
The education forum will take place on Sept. 1 and 2, 2026, under the supervision of prefect Gille Christian Sadi. Organizers say they want to address the roots of physical and psychological violence, harassment, sexual abuse and what they describe as moral decline in the school environment.
The agenda also includes the crisis in civic values, the spread of drugs and psychotropic substances, weakening parental authority and the breakdown of dialogue between teachers and families. The discussions will be held at the auditorium of the National School of Water and Forestry in Mbalmayo.
The meeting will bring together education specialists and other participants around the theme, “Together, let’s make education the engine of development.”
Together, let’s make education the engine of development.
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Originally published by Journal du Cameroun in French. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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