Content_paragraphs:  In Timbuktu Region, schools reopened in Tonka, Goundam Cercle. Previously, 
  
  29 schools in the area had either been closed or transformed into Qur’anic schools. 
  
  The reopening follows an agreement brokered by the former traditional judge of 
  
  Timbuktu with an extremist group affiliated with Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa 
  
  al-Muslimin (JNIM), earlier in March. The agreement called for the respect of the 
  
  conditions imposed by extremists, specifically separation of girls from boys, head 
  
  covering for girls (hijab) and provision of Arabic lessons. Schools in the villages of 
  
  Ata and Koronga, controlled by armed elements, were reportedly not allowed to 
  
  re-open, as they were designated to become Qur’anic schools.