International community pledges $2.7 billion to support international education fund

International community has pledged a total of $2.7 billion to support the international education fund. The body made the pledge at the two-day global education conference in Dakar, Senegal. French President Emmanuel Macron joined Senegal’s President Macky Sall on Friday in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Bel Air School in Dakar, ahead of a global education conference in the West African country. The two leaders walked around the new school and interacted with students. The school opening was one of the events ahead of the fundraising conference aimed at highlighting the need to fund education. Presidents Sall, Macron and pop star,…