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Chad: Newsline
Educating Fatna: For a refugee schoolgirl in Chad, a chance to learn
NEW YORK, 13 April 2006 – Today in Dakar, Senegal, the governments, UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and other partners in the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative launched their new Regional Network for West and Central Africa, where increasing girls’ access to quality education has been a challenging task.
That challenge is put in stark relief by the story of Fatna, 14-year-old schoolgirl from the conflict-ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur.
