AFGHANISTAN-EDUCATION

Afghan schoolchildren study at an open-air classroom in the Mohmand Dara district in eastern Nangarhar province on December 18, 2014. Afghanistan has had only rare moments of peace over the past 30 years, its education system undermined by the Soviet invasion of 1979, a civil war in the 1990s and six years of Taliban rule. AFP PHOTO / Noorullah SHIRZADA