international literacy day commemoration ceremony held in Mogadishu participate high delegations from the government, schools, universities and teachers. UNESCO has announced on 17 November 1965 the international literacy day to be 8 September and the first year marked was 1966
Some 775 million adults lack minimum literacy skills; one in five adults is still not literate and two-thirds of them are women;[2] 60.7 million children are out-of-school and many more attend irregularly or drop out.
the event was organized by Somali federal government ministry of education that has presented there its role for education programs in the country.
the direcor of the education ministry, Moahmed abdulkadir Nur. Profr: Aden Guled Shbeel and media scholar Abdi Hjai Gobdon
