According to the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), there has been an increase in the number of recorded attacks on schools by armed groups that operate outside of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. In the Central Sahel, there were approximately 430 attacks against education between 2015 and 2019, according to GCPEA’s Education under Attack 2020 report. Despite difficulties with monitoring and reporting during the epidemic, the GCPEA detected over 90 recorded assaults on education in the region between January and July 2020 alone. Based on an study of emerging data from 2020 and other years, schools, colleges, students, and education workers in the region are anticipated to experience heightened risks once classes resume following Covid-19-related closures. Regionally, attacks on education have had a cascading impact. Attacks not only inflict harm and take lives, but they also make it harder for people to get a good education, impede the enjoyment of other fundamental rights, and have a long-term negative impact on peace, development, and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.