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A student responds to a teacher’s question in an overcrowded classroom at a public primary school in Kaya, Centre-Nord region, Burkina Faso. In January 2020, the school had 748 students, including 113 displaced students. “Each day, the displaced students come… we don’t refuse enrolment, but if there isn’t any space they can’t start,” the principal said. (© 2020 Lauren Seibert/Human Rights Watch)
AL QAEDA

Armed militants wage war on Burkina Faso’s schools

A survivor tells of how Islamists carrying AK-47s arrived on motorbikes, forced fleeing children to lie on the ground and beat teachers before setting a building on fire

  • Birgit Schwarz
7 min read