Governments are struggling to meet the rising demand for secondary education, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where there are enough school places for just 36% of children of age to enrol. Girls face the greatest barriers as the gender gap widens across the region, according to the 2011 Global Education Digest published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (..)

The article:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/no_cache/media-services/single-view/news/two_out_of_three_children_in_africa_are_left_out_of_secondary_school/

The Report:
http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Pages/ged-2011.aspx