For 13-year-old Taha Aboud, who dreams of becoming an engineer, war in Libya's capital Tripoli has meant his family fleeing their home and him missing studies as they searched for a new school.
"I'm happy to be back at school. I hope to become a technology engineer one day ... I love it," said Taha, as his father, Fouad, a civil servant, signed papers this week to enroll his son in the Ben Ashour primary school, which has 1,250 students.
Up to 3,000 children face a similar plight, according to the country's education ministry, as fighting forces dozens of schools to close, sometimes in order to house the displaced.
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