{"id":744409,"date":"2022-01-11T09:33:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/ugandan-schools-reopen-after-83-week-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T09:33:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:33:52","slug":"ugandan-schools-reopen-after-83-week-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/ugandan-schools-reopen-after-83-week-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Schools Reopen After 83-Week Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s schools, shut down for more than 83 weeks, the world\u2019s longest disruption due to covid19 pandemic according to UN sources, reopened to students on Monday, ending the world\u2019s longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The reopening caused traffic congestion in some areas of the capital, Kampala, and students can be seen carrying their mattresses in the streets, a back-to-boarding school phenomenon not witnessed here for nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown affected more than 10 million learners.<\/p>\n<p>The turnout of students is unpredictable, the turnout of teachers is unpredictable,\u201d some students are pregnant,\u00a0 some are working manually, not all schools are able to follow Covid precautions to the letter due to lack of resources and space\u201d..said one Kampalan observer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s schools, shut down for more than 83 weeks, the world\u2019s longest disruption due to covid19 pandemic according to UN sources, reopened to students on Monday, ending the world\u2019s longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reopening caused traffic congestion in some areas of the capital, Kampala, and students can be seen carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}