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Calls for Ban of Nigeria's Almajiri System

Poor families from rural areas across West Africa send their children to a network of Islamic boarding schools in the cities of northern Nigeria in the hope that they would receive an education, shelter and food but the children are allegedly reduced to a life of begging on the streets to survive - A practice that governors are wanting to eradicate from their states.
Julius Mwelu/IRIN

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