Dakar — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that better laws, concrete data and widespread education are needed to tackle the "disease" of statelessness that affect the lives of more than a million people across West Africa.
"Statelessness is like a disease, you pass it on to your children. If you are born stateless, you start life in poverty and will never have the means to break this vicious cycle," said UNHCR senior regional protection officer Emmanuelle Mitte, Reuters Reported.
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