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![[Niger] Tamada, 20, from Niger, escaped from her life of slavery in Mali where she was badly abused by her master. “The situation of a slave is more than I can describe. There was so much violence, verbal insults, spitting.”](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/images/20053184.jpg)
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