Menaka — Life has never been easy in Moussa Majga's corner of northern Mali, a desert region of leafless trees, mud huts, and roaming gunmen.
For years, violence has plagued Majga's dusty town, the scene of clashes between government forces and Tuareg-led separatists who took advantage of a 2012 coup in Mali's capital Bamako to escalate their uprising.
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