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Visual Mission: Mauritanians in Senegal

Senegal 2006: Grassland near Mauritania border

Photo Credit: Refugees International
10/27/2006
Throughout much of the countryside that forms Senegal’s border with Mauritania, a small group of refugees have spent 15 years in the limbo of statelessness. They exist without valid refugee identity documents (most holding only a receipt for an application for refugee status), limiting their ability to travel or work and placing them at risk of arrest or harassment.

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Senegal 2006: Village near Mauritania-Senegal border

Senegal 2006: Stateless Mauritanians in Village

Senegal 2006: Stateless Mauritanian girl in Senegal

Senegal 2006: Stateless Mauritanian woman

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