Hunger for education among displaced Malian students

Oumar, 16, was preparing for exams when insurgents overran his historic town of Timbuktu in Mali. The town was first captured in March by fighters from the Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) who want an independent state in North Mali. And then, weeks later, Islamist extremists seized the town from them.

For five months all schools were closed and Oumar had nothing to do. Many of his classmates and neighbourhood friends joined the Islamic Ansar Dine army but he was not interested.

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