Girls from Sierra Leone who were impregnanted during the Ebola crisis, and consequently expelled, have been allowed back into the classroom. “Pregnant girls … are punished by being barred from school, and their perpetrators walk free,” Stewart said in a statement. The following month, the President Ernest Bai Koroma “compromised” by allowing pregnant girls to attend alternative schools. The concern was that the pregnant girls would have a “negative influence” over other students, Brima Turay, education minister, told AFP. According to the AFP, 5,000 students who had been expelled for getting pregnant during the Ebola outbreak were allowed back.

Source: Huffington Post June 20, 2016 17:04 UTC