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Masked as Religious schooling driven to forced begging, inside the plight of Senegal’s forgotten Talibé children

At five in the morning, while the streets of the Senegalese capital are still cloaked in pre-dawn darkness, Abdoulaye steps outside....

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At eleven o’clock at night, the Hadayek el-Ahram district in Giza Governorate lay in darkness. The shops had closed their shutters,...

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Since 2 February, when the reopening of the Rafah border crossing was announced, displaced Palestinians from Gaza in Egypt have faced...

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When coast guards and pirates steal our boat engines and left migrants face death at sea

Gangs aboard Tunisian fishing vessels steal the engines of migrant boats to sell to smugglers

Mali’s Agony: Iyad Ag Ghali and the Human Cost of Terror

It was close to four in the morning when...

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Masked as Religious schooling driven to forced begging, inside the plight of Senegal’s forgotten Talibé children

At five in the morning, while the streets of the Senegalese capital are still cloaked in pre-dawn darkness, Abdoulaye steps outside. No...

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At eleven o’clock at night, the Hadayek el-Ahram district in Giza Governorate lay in darkness. The shops had closed their shutters, and...

  Palestinians stuck in Egypt between two nightmares: returning to Gaza or facing an unknown future

Since 2 February, when the reopening of the Rafah border crossing was announced, displaced Palestinians from Gaza in Egypt have faced an...

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