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WEST AFRICA: Seasonal rains, seasonal misery

Source: IRIN
Dakar : Senegal | about 1 month ago  
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August, a day after the area flooded. “We are trapped by water.” Mohamed Diaby, 19, of Coronthie said: “We put my brother’s nine-month-old twins in a suitcase to bring them to a safer area. That was something you saw all over the neighbourhood.” He said people were in tears as sacks of rice lay...
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