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Yacoub Diop, 56, a former policeman, now chief of the village of Medina Salam, near Senegal river in Southern Mauritania. Like thousands of other Mauritanians, he fled the violence in his country in 1989 and returned in the mid-90s
Anne Isabelle Leclercq/IRIN

  • Yacoub Diop, 56, a former policeman, now chief of the village of Medina Salam, near Senegal river in Southern Mauritania. Like thousands of other Mauritanians, he fled the violence in his country in 1989 and returned in the mid-90s

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  • Credits Anne Isabelle Leclercq/IRIN
  • Themes Migration
  • Regions Mauritania

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