A Visit to Gao, Northern Mali's Largest City
Refugees fleeing Gao. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
Amadou Cisse, of the Liberation Front in Northern Mali. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
Two Gao women residents on a motorcycle. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
A school for the blind in Gao. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
Jobless people in Gao. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
Citizens playing soccer, which is forbidden in the country. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
A local office of EcoBank. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
Inside a church destroyed by Islamists. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
On a scooter: Nafissatou Maiga, a teacher from Menaka now stuck in Gao. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
Gao's soccer (football) field. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
A man whose hand was amputated under Sharia law. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
Azawad’s flag. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
Hawa Doumbia, a trader. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
The house of a leader of MUJWA. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
The Niger river. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
Obama stickers on motorcycles in Gao. (Idriss Fall/VOA)
A ransacked restaurant. (Idriss Fall/VOA)