Fear grows in Africa when schools reopen during the economic downturn
A parent who was provided with cash demanded to pay the school's school fees with bags of rice that she grew, which led principal Mike Ssekaggo to request a test before approving. Eventually he did.
Many other parents in African countries, who cannot pay in cash or kindly, say that their children will have to miss the new semester when lessons resume after months of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ssekaggo, principal of Wampeewo Ntakke Secondary School on the outskirts of Uganda's capital…