In Burkina Faso, some Mali refugees want to grow up to serve

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In Burkina Faso, some Mali refugees want to grow up to serve

By Misha Hussain GOUDEBOU, Burkina Faso (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T en-year-old Atahib goes to school in the Goudebou refugee camp in the savannah of Burkina Faso, not hoping to become a teacher or a doctor like his classmates. Each day, Atahib wakes up before the Muslim morning call to prayer to help his mother with her chores - unpaid work that people from their Bella ethnic group have been doing for the lighter-skinned Tuaregs for centuries in Mali, Niger and Mauritania. At 7 a.m., Atahib walks along a dusty track to join the rest of the children in school. His masters fled to Burkina Faso after a rebellion erupted in their home, northern Mali, two years ago.

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