Jihadists Close Mali Schools as Revolt Against State Flares
- Almost 400 schools have shut as militants threaten teachers
- Analysts say local support for Islamist campaign increases
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When Islamist militants came to his village school and threatened to kill the teachers if they didn’t leave, Moussa Diallo wasn’t surprised.
“They’d already been to nearby villages,” Diallo, a 33-year-old teacher, said in the central Malian town of Sevare, where he has lived since the gunmen’s visit. “They said they don’t want French schools anymore. They want Koranic schools.”