“Peaceful, clean, and quiet,” are the words that 12-year-old Mariama uses to describe her village in Ansongo.
Ansongo lies on the Niger River, about half way between Gao and the Niger border in Mali. Several weeks ago, the village was raided by heavily armed bandits and Islamic extremists as part of the on-going conflict in northern Mali that has created chaos and fear in villages large and small.
“We don’t know where they came from, or why, but they brought death and destruction with them,” says Mariama.
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