NIGER: Teacher strike threatens to reverse MDG gains

by E Wayne Ross on April 6, 2009

IRIN News: NIGER: Teacher strike threatens to reverse MDG gains

NIAMEY, 26 March 2009 (IRIN) – An ongoing three-month strike by 37,000 contract teachers in Niger threatens recent gains toward meeting the country’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of providing universal primary education, according to union leaders.