A second chance at education in war-torn Sudan

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A second chance at education in war-torn Sudan

In a worn-down classroom in eastern Sudan, men and women watch attentively from a wood bench as a teacher scribbles Arabic letters on a faded blackboard. Nodding approvingly in the corner is the school's 63-year-old founder Amna Mohamed Ahmed, known to most as "Amna Oor", which partly means lion in the Beja language of eastern Sudan. She has spent the last three decades helping hundreds return to their education in Port Sudan, now the country's…