Migrants' dreams of riches lead to slums of Gabon
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Bodies of African migrants wash up on the beaches and those who survive the ocean voyage complain of discrimination and police harassment. This is not Italy or Spain, but the small central African country of Gabon.
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Migrants around the globe sent more than $300 billion to their home countries last year, a "staggering" sum that surpassed foreign development aid and foreign direct investment and carries major development potential for poor nations if properly channeled, a report says.
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Through protests, militant inmates in Morocco have won perks that make them the envy of the other inmates.
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Folks in this lonely frontier town like to say their dreams of becoming the Pacific gateway to Asian riches went down in the Atlantic.
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MUGUNGA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- When he dreams, the Pygmy chief Byeragi Ngenderezi dreams of having basic things: a good plastic tarp, some decent fishing nets, perhaps a few garden hoes. When he dreams big, he envisions a life altogether different from the one his ancestors have lived for thousands of years in the equatorial forests of Congo.
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MAYO, Sudan  - Hashim Khalil Osman peeks out from  the remains of his hut, partly bulldozed and then patched up  with plastic sacking, to see if help has arrived to alleviate  the misery of life in the slum suburbs of Khartoum.
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Scarred by war and worn by time, the tumbledown wooden houses which dot Freetown are a vestige of the Krios, descendants of freed slaves who once made Sierra Leone a beacon of Western culture in Africa.
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Karina, like many Filipinas who migrate to the Qatar, faces degrading labor practices.
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SOWETO, South Africa  - Seeing buses full of tourists looking for a glimpse of South African poverty, squatter camp resident Lawrence Rolomana decided to try to earn a share of the cash they were spending.
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The dream of a free world becomes a  nightmare of modern day slavery in Ken Loach&#39;s latest film,  about migrant workers trying to eke out a living in Britain  where they are exploited and abused.
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As the most able-bodied workers leave for the US, poorer Mexicans are moving to take their place in the fields.
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A charity finds high levels of unemployment among refugees, despite them being highly qualified.
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For nearly 20 years, the women of Benin City, Nigeria, have been going to Italy to work in the sex trade.
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Colonial rule, rapacious dictatorship and civil war have so ravaged Congo's economy and society that the streets of its cities swarm with homeless young people who numb their misery with drugs and alcohol.
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LISBON, Feb 1  (IPS) - Guinea-Bissau is an ideal African springboard for  Latin American mafias to smuggle large quantities of cocaine into  the wealthy European Union market.
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The people of Nyang'oma, Kenya, are dreaming of good fortune for their remote village should Barack Obama be elevated to high office.
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LUSAKA, Zambia -- Making a living is never easy in Kamwala, the cramped, grimy but bustling marketplace in downtown Lusaka, where Nally, a middle-aged mother of five, has been selling clothes out of a small wooden stall for the past 15 years.