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Sent back by Australia to debt in Sri Lanka

 
 

Vaithilingam Lingarajan spent the war years plying the seas off the northern coast of Sri Lanka in his small fishing boat. It was only once the conflict ended that he decided to flee the country, making a failed bid for Australia that has left him destitute and facing possible criminal charges.



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Malawi's hunger season

 
 

It's mid-morning on a dusty road to Lisungwi market in Neno, southern Malawi, and Bertha Cham'bwinja is sitting under the shade of an acacia tree resting from the scorching sun, a 20-kg bag of maize by her side.

"It has been extremely hot this January," she says. The rains should have begun around December, but this is an El Niño year and the skies have been alarmingly clear.



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The Aegean's nameless dead

 
 

Migrants who reach the Greek island of Ikaria rarely arrive there alive.



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How the LRA still haunts northern Uganda

 
 

In 2006, northern Uganda was nearing the end of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army insurgency. Some 1.8 million people had been displaced and tens of thousands kidnapped, mutilated or killed. Ten years later, the region appears rejuvenated: a bustling trade and business centre with buildings shooting up and a renewed sense of optimism. However, scratch beneath the surface and you find an unequal recovery and plenty of hidden scars.



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