GAO, Mali (AP) — Nearly a month after the al-Qaida-linked militants were driven out of Gao and into the surrounding villages, students are now returning to the city’s Quranic schools.
Many classrooms, though, are still half full, after tens of thousands of people fled the fighting and the extremists’ strict Islamic rule.
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