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UN report finds migrants face violence by African officials

by Associated Press
| July 28, 2020 3:27 PM

GENEVA (AP) — A new U.N. refugee agency report on migrants who braved long and often-deadly land routes to Libya has found that government officials, such as border guards, police and soldiers, in the African countries they crossed were responsible for nearly half of all cases of physical violence against them.

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