“Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do!” an Ethiopian girl sang to her classmates, who are huddled together on a straw mat on the sandy ground of a refugee camp in Sudan.
Shielded from the hot mid-afternoon sun in a makeshift classroom built from wood and straw, the children sang the octave back in unison.
When they finish, they laugh as they break out into noisy applause, with nods of approval from their teacher Bereket Weldgebriel.
“Education is the light of the world,” Bereket, a 35-year-old English and music teacher, told AFP.
He and the children in his class are among some 49,000 people who fled their homes after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government launched a m…
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