Hold states accountable for Africa's education shortfalls, says UNESCO

DAKAR, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Governments must be held accountable for African countries' slow progress on global education goals since underperforming schools and teachers are usually victims of a dysfunctional system, the U.N.'s cultural agency UNESCO said on Wednesday. Sub-Saharan Africa falls behind other parts of the world by most education standards, with one in four young people unable to read and 33 million children out of primary school, more than half of all those in the world. Read Full Story