Mali: Local Refugee Women Recount Ordeal

Nouakchott — Displaced Malian women narrate their harrowing stories of escape as their normal way of life was upended and liberties crushed by armed Islamists.

Scores of Malians have found havens in neighbouring Mauritania to escape the months-long conflict. But while the first batch of refugees fled the effects of the civil war, the more recent exiles had a different motive.

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