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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Earlier this week, Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reported on Islamic militants who now control two-thirds of the country. Violence and harsh punishments carried out by the militants have driven thousands to flee to neighboring Mauritania.
Tonight, Hilsum has the stories of families crossing the border.
LINDSEY HILSUM: It's been a long journey, three days' trek through desert. Another seven families who have loaded everything they have onto their carts and crossed the border into Mauritania. Fear and hunger drove them out of Northern Mali.
They tell their story to the police chief in the border town of Fassala.
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