Mali pupils return to school in Timbuktu – video
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Children in Timbuktu are returning to their classrooms over a year since the end of the occupation of the ancient desert city by militant Islamists. Schools dispensing 'western-style' education – as opposed to Qur'anic institutions – had been prime targets for attack. Books were burned, furniture looted and buildings destroyed. Now Timbuktu is firmly on the road to postwar recovery there has been a slow but steady return to normal life
