le mur

15:31 May 24, 2015 

Thanks Barbara and Nikki.

15:26 May 24, 2015 

I think there are two strong arguments in favour of "the wall". One, the French states just "le mur" and secondly, none of the surrounding context gives any information enabling the wall to be qualified in any particular way with any certainty whatsoever.

11:27 May 24, 2015 

The compounds I've seen in W Africa were formed by buildings facing towards an inner courtyard on three or three-and-a-bit sides. All or part of the fourth side (usually the side with the door to the street), could be a wall rather than a building.

14:35 May 23, 2015 

Thanks for your help. Towards the end of the document they mentioned possible improvements and one of them was "Clôture de la cour de l’école". It seems that this is desirable, rather than essential, which lends weight to Barbara's reading.

As Thomas suggests, I'm just going to use "wall" - it's fairly peripheral anyway to the subject of the document, which improvement in educational outcomes.

19:32 May 22, 2015 

If the client can't be more precise, you could also just leave the ambiguity in the translation as "the wall".