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A Malian schoolgirl listens to her teacher as schools reopen in Gao, northern Mali, Feb. 18, 2013. Jerome Delay/AP
People mount a truck after being checked at a security checkpoint in Gossi February 19, 2013. Joe Penney/Reuters
Yacouba Konate, 56, wears a French flag to show his support for the French military intervention in Mali in the Malian capital of Bamako January 13, 2013. France is determined to end Islamist domination of northern Mali, which many fear could act as a base for attacks on the West and for links with al Qaeda in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa. Joe Penney/Reuters
A Malian women proudly removes her veil and reveals her hair in the central market in Gao, Northern Mali, Jan. 30, 2013. The mission by French troops scored another success in its effort to dislodge the al-Qaida-linked militants from northern Mali. Jerome Delay/AP
A Rafale fighter prepares for takeoff from the Saint Dizier airbase in central France before being deployed in Mali on January 13, 2013. Al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels in Mali launched a counter-offensive on Monday after three days of strikes by French fighter jets on their strongholds in the desert north, vowing to drag France into a long and brutal ground war. Laure-Anne Maucorps/SGC/ECPAD/Reuters
A woman walks by the Grand Mosque of Djenne, on market day in Djenne September 2, 2012. Nearly 10,000 annual tourists visited Djenne, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Since Mali's coup d'etat in late March, after which Islamist rebels took control of the country's northern two-thirds, less than 20 tourists have come to Djenne, according to the local tourism board. Joe Penney/Reuters
Militiaman from the Ansar Dine Islamic group, who said they come from Niger and Mauritania, ride on a vehicle at Kidal in northeastern Mali, June 16, 2012. Adama Diarra//Reuters
A bus carrying passengers from Gao in Mali's Islamist-controlled north to the capital, Bamako, makes a stop in Mopti, Mali, Sept. 27, 2012. Passengers began the journey divided by sex, with the women seated behind the men. As soon as the bus crossed the border into government-controlled territory, people switched seats to sit with their families. Ordinary Malians and international experts alike are not sure what will reunite and bring back political stability to a country that until recently had a reputation as one of West Africa's most steady democracies. AP
An artisanal gold miner tosses a bucket of mudwater to clear the way for work on a small-scale gold mine in Kalana August 26, 2012. Nearly 10,000 annual tourists visited Djenne, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Joe Penney/Reuters
A woman wearing a Muslim headscarf rides a motorcycle across a bridge in the Malian capital Bamako, September 21, 2012. Joe Penney/Reuters
Former Timbuktu souvenir vendor Mamadou Sekere smokes alongside some of his children at the home where they have taken refuge in Mopti, Mali, Sept. 27, 2012. Before Islamists seized the northern half of Mali, Sekere sold masks and jewelry in Timbuktu to European tourists who rode camels and slept in the desert under the stars. AP
A worker fabricates a plastic bag designed to hold cotton at the Badenya Company factory in Koutiala August 31, 2012. Joe Penney/Reuters
A man in traditional dress walks past a woman cooking on market day in Djenne, on September 2, 2012. Joe Penney/Reuters
Konate Coulibaly, a villager from Massigi, stands next to an old mosque January 27, 2006. According to the Imam of Massigi, Khahil Haidara, the mosque, made out of a type of mud, is over 1,000 years old. Juan Medina/Reuters
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Reporter John Thorne met Ali Ould Mohamed Ould Kalbali weeks before he disappeared, allegedly at the hands of Malian soldiers. Are ethnic reprisals underway?
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