Almost one school-age child in four (23%) has never been to school, or dropped out of school before finishing the primary cycle in this region, where the absolute number of children denied access to school has climbed from 29 million in 2008 to 31 million in 2010.
"What we're learning is how storms evolve in this part of the region... their dynamics, their life-cycle, their internal characteristics that are unique to this region, that have never really been observed before by radar, " he said.