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In a year-long investigation released last week, UK-based Lighthouse Reports revealed that EU funding is being used for an ongoing wave of “desert dumps” across Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
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Senegalese migrants on hunger strike in Western Sahara after Moroccan navy interception

North African countries are arresting black people they suspect are headed to Europe, and abandoning them in ‘desert dumps’

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