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Africa

Teresa Nyakouth, “He was still holding his shoes when he died”
Teresa Nyakuoth, a 24-year-old mother of two, recalls how she was shopping in the market next to her home in Rubkhona, a district of the South Sudanese town of Bentiu, when a Sudanese bomb fell on 23 April. The blast killed one teenage boy instantly, and another died later that day in hospital, where he had been admitted with severe burns and head wounds.
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Salome Matakwei, “Some people still hate me”
The widow of a militia leader killed by Kenyan security forces speaks of her regrets over the numbers killed during the 2006-2008 conflict and of her efforts to promote peace and support other women who lost loved ones.
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Akec Tut, “We are depending on the leaves of the trees”
Akec Tut is among 110,000 civilians who fled Abyei when the contested region on the border between Sudan and South Sudan was occupied by Khartoum’s troops in May 2011.
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Asia

Jaheda Begum, “I can’t feed my family”
Jaheda Begum, 25, and her family - Rohingya refugees who crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar - haven’t had a square meal in days because the heavy pre-monsoon rains have prevented her husband from finding any work.
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Mehdi, “My hands were hurting because the handcuffs were too tight”
In an attempt to find long-term solutions for the estimated 1.4 million unregistered Afghans living within its borders, Iran adopted a legalization scheme last year that paved the way for Afghans to enter Iran legally with work visas.
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Sayed Ahmed Abdellatif, "I'm ready to die at sea"
Egyptian asylum-seeker Sayed Ahmed Abdellatif, married with six children, says he is ready to risk everything to reach Australia - even his family.
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Middle East

Samia, "Why can't they just take us out of here?"
Syria is home to the largest Iraqi refugee population in the world - an estimated one million people, of whom 102,000 are registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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Khalil Al Asfar, “I felt it was my duty to do something to help my Syrian brothers”
Khalil Al Asfar, from Dera’a in southern Syria, was barely 20 when he left the country in 1990 to try his chances in the USA, where he became the successful manager of a plumbing company in New York.
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Sayed Ahmed Abdellatif, "I'm ready to die at sea"
Egyptian asylum-seeker Sayed Ahmed Abdellatif, married with six children, says he is ready to risk everything to reach Australia - even his family.
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