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West Africa: Combating world's lowest literacy rates

DAKAR: Illiteracy rates in West Africa are the highest in the world, cramping development and weakening citizens' power to effect socio-economic and political change, say education agencies, who are calling on governments and donors to step up literacy and education efforts.

24 Apr 2009

Sixty-five million West African adults - 40% of the adult population - cannot read or write according to a new study, "From closed books to open doors - West Africa's literacy challenge".

Of the 10 countries with the world's lowest recorded adult - 15 and older - literacy rates, seven are in West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Sierra Leone, the report says.

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