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Africa

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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Abdi Adan," Right now, I am a beggar with no home"
Abdi Adan, an ethnic Somali living in Kenya’s central region of Isiolo, which has recently seen clashes between the Borana, Somali and Turkana communities and the displacement of thousands of people, tells IRIN about his experience of the violence.
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Hamid Yussef Bashir, “People end up fighting at the water point”
Hamid Yussef Bashir, 30, is one of around 37,000 refugees in Jamam camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, a place beleaguered by chronic water shortages, a diet of sorghum that refugees say is not enough, and where most residents are camped on a floodplain weeks ahead of the rainy season.
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Asia

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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Khalil, “The Taliban saw me coming”
Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar has long seen violence between insurgents and government or international forces, and a growing number of children have become victims. Khalil - from the province’s Zhari District, who goes by only one name and says he is “about 15” - told IRIN of a bomb blast in which he lost his leg.
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Middle East

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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Mohammed Abdallah Ali, “The trial was in a kitchen”
As the relationship between pro-democracy activists and the ruling military deteriorates in post-revolutionary Egypt, the practice of putting civilians through deeply flawed military trials has been a growing source of friction.
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