Cote D'Ivoire: Rebels to organise children's exams after three-year break

Rebels who control the north of Cote d'Ivoire have announced plans to begin organising exams for children living in their territory, where education systems ground to a halt three years ago. "We have decided that we will organise exams because the national minister for education has refused to, in what we consider to be cultural genocide," Mamadou Togba told IRIN. Hundreds of thousands of students have been unable to sit annual school examinations since the country was split in two by war following an attempted coup in September 2002.