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Correspondent for @guardian .

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Lorenzo Tondo
7 years
In the last year, I have helped expose the prosecutor’s alleged error: they arrested a #refugee and mistook him for a smuggler. The prosecutors have responded by wiretapping my conversations with one of my sources. Thanks to the @guardian for their support. #Italy #MigrantCrisis
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The Guardian
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Italian prosecutors wiretap Guardian journalist Lorenzo Tondo
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2 years
I was in Bucha&Borodyanka today. And I’m amazed that, despite the rubble and destruction, Ukrainians still have the ability to turn Russian weapons into artwork. #Ukraine #Russia #war #invasion
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Exclusive: Members of #Israel ’s security forces are tipping off #settlers to the location of #aid trucks delivering supplies to #Gaza , enabling the groups to block & vandalise the convoys. By me & ⁦ @Quique_K ⁩. 📸 ⁦ @AlessioMamo ⁩. #War #Palestine
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3 years
We are in #Poland &today we found this shelter where entire Syrian family slept.The shack came to mind where more than 2000yrs ago that child was born, a #refugee fleeing with his family.His birth will be celebrated again in a few days.Well, #MerryChristmas everybody! #migrants
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This is the Guardian’s tribute to #MichelaMurgia , one of the most important voices in Italian culture, a brilliant woman, a prominent writer and intellectual. My latest. #Murgia #Italy #Michela
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2 months
#Israeli soldiers escorting the #aid convoy to #Gaza , blocked and vandalised by Israeli #settlers ,  did nothing to stop the attack. This is one of the videos obtained by the @guardian . Full story in comment. By me, @sufiantaha1 , @burke_jason , @elenaukc . #israel #war #Palestine
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
I’ve arrived this morning at the #Poland / #Belarus border. We just met with this group of Iraqi Kurdish families with 8 #children . They attempted to cross the border 9 times & for 9 times they had been pushed back. #refugees #Migrants #migration #asylum @AlessioMamo
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 years
We documented tortures&Killings perpetrated by #Russia in #Ukraine , gathering 1sthand accounts from survivors&cross-checking them with info released by prosecutors.This is our visual project on it. ByMe ⁦ @_EmmaGH ⁩ ⁦ @IKoshiw @AlessioMamo #war
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
5 years ago a prosecutor in #Italy arrested a refugee, mistaking him for human trafficker.After @guardian exposed his mistake,he wiretapped my conversations with a source&sued me.This week he was warned by Council of Europe for threatening #pressfreedom .
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
Old fisherman from Sicily once told me:“I wonder if even 1 of our politicians has ever heard desperate cries for help at high sea in the black of night.”I thought of his words when heard about #PritiPatel ’s plans to send back #migrants boats. My latest #uk
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Lorenzo Tondo
4 years
#Nice church attacker identified as 21-yr-old Tunisian. Prosecutors in #Sicily confirmed man arrived in #Lampedusa on 20 Sept & spent 14 days on quarantine boat before being transferred to Bari on 9 Oct. My latest with ⁦ @burke_jason #NiceAttack
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 years
I met with forensic doctors & prosecutors who have uncovered first cases of #Ukrainian women allegedly raped before being killed by #Russian soldiers.Their bodies were found in mass graves. By me& ⁦ @IKoshiw ⁩. 📸 @AlessioMamo #Russia #Ukraine #war
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Lorenzo Tondo
6 years
#Savianononsitocca @robertosaviano mette a nudo le bugie con cui la Lega ha costruito il suo consenso. Saviano diventa allora un nemico. E le minacce che gli ha rivolto #SalviniMinacciaCose , a pensarci bene, non sono diverse da quelle che lo hanno costretto a vivere sotto scorta
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Roberto Saviano
6 years
L'Italia è il Paese occidentale con più giornalisti sotto scorta perché ha le organizzazioni criminali più potenti del mondo, ma Matteo Salvini, ministro degli Interni, invece di contrastare le mafie, minaccia di ridurre al silenzio chi le racconta. #MinistrodellaMalavita
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I am honored & still incredulous. It is difficult to imagine one's name among the legends of Italian journalism. This award is the result of an incredible team effort, of all the editors at ⁦ @guardian ⁩ who have always supported my work. (🧵 )
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 years
Exclusive: the much-publicised Ukrainian southern offensive was a disinformation campaign to distract #Russia from the real 1 being prepared in the #Kharkiv region, Ukraine’s special forces revealed. By ⁦ @IKoshiw ⁩, me & Artem Mazhulin. #war #Ukraine
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3 Wagner Group fighters have been accused of having set up a killing camp to torture&murder civilians in #Ukraine . 2 are mercenaries. One had fought in #Syria . By me ⁦ @_EmmaGH ⁩ ⁦ @IKoshiw ⁩ ⁦ @PjotrSauer ⁩. 📸 ⁦ @AlessioMamo #Russia #war
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We entered homes of families in #Poland who are hiding #migrants at risk of being pushed back to #Belarus .Most of their grandparents hid #Jews duringWar.“This is no Holocaust but as a Pole u can’t help thinking of similarities with WWII”ph⁦ @AlessioMamo
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 years
We interviewed forensic doctors in #Ukraine &found out dozens of civilians in Bucha were killed by tiny metal arrows from shells fired by #Russia & widely used during WWI. Firing them at civilians is a violation of humanitarian law. 📸⁦ @AlessioMamo #war
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 months
#Italy ’s far-right government is making strategic use of defamation suits to silence intellectuals & journalists as never before. An approach fueled by a longstanding culture within the Italian right. 🧵 (1/2)
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
I understand how it feels when authorities intercept your conversations with sources. Great job by ⁦ @DomaniGiornale ⁩ & my solidarity with ⁦ @nelloscavo ⁩ ⁦ @nancyporsia @mannocchia ⁩ & to all journos whose work is hindered by authorities
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
#Children ’s bodies wash up on Libyan beach after migrant boats sink. Babies were travelling with their parents on one of the many dinghies that set off from #Libya in recent days. My latest #Migrants #refugees #migration #Mediterranean @openarms_fund
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Lorenzo Tondo
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#Italy ’s far-right government has been accused of leaning on the state broadcaster to axe an anti-mafia television programme by writer ⁦ @robertosaviano ⁩ after he criticised the country’s leaders. By me & ⁦ @GiuffridaA #Meloni #Saviano #Salvini
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Lorenzo Tondo
5 years
One of the world’s most notorious human traffickers attended meeting in #Sicily with #Italian intelligence officials to discuss controls on #migrant flows from #Libya , ⁦ @nelloscavo ⁩ from ⁦ @Avvenire_Nei ⁩ revealed. My latest for ⁦ @guardian
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 years
We entered #Russia ’s torture room’ uncovered in liberated #Kherson city where dozens of men were allegedly detained, electrocuted, beaten and some of them killed. My latest with ⁦ @IKoshiw ⁩. #war #Ukraine #invasion #Putin
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Lorenzo Tondo
11 months
We obtained a video filmed in a detention centre in Tripoli & shared with ⁦ @guardian ⁩ by #migrants who arrived in #Tunisia from #Libya . It shows a woman lying dead on the ground, unclothed, the latest glimpse of the conditions endured by #refugees .
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
I arrived this morning at the #Poland / #Belarus border. We just met with this group of Iraqi Kurdish families with 8 children. They attempted to cross the border 9 times & for 9 times they had been pushed back. #refugees #Migrants #migration #asylum @AlessioMamo
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An undercover video investigation by ⁦⁦ @fanpage ⁩ ,which brought to light disturbing footage of youth members associated with the country’s PM #Meloni far-right party, engaging in fascist chants &Nazi salutes, has sparked a row in #Italy . #Fanpage
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3 years
“We don’t do anything illegal but they make us feel as if we are.Helping people is like a secret activity here.I just feel what is legal these days is so far from what is moral.”My latest with ph by ⁦ @AlessioMamo #belarus #Poland #migrants #refugees
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Lorenzo Tondo
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2 whistleblowers told us how prisoners from #Gaza held at a detention camp in #Israel are being subjected to physical abuse,with 1 reported case of a man having his limb amputated as a result of injuries from constant handcuffing. By me& ⁦ @Quique_K #war
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Lorenzo Tondo
9 months
Receiving the Golden Dove for Peace Award for my reporting in #Ukraine and in the central Mediterranean is a great honor & a great responsibility. I dedicate this award to all those people who have been living under bombs, the displaced, and the asylum seekers… (1/2)
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Legacoop Nazionale
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🎖️Premiati i vincitori delle Colombe d’oro per la #Pace 🗞️assegnate ogni anno a personalità dell’informazione che si sono distinte nel far conoscere situazioni virtuose di gestione dei conflitti su basi nonviolente 🤝organizzato da @ArchivioDisarmo col sostegno di Legacoop
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3 years
#Libya releases 1 of world’s most wanted #humantraffickers who is also Coast guard commander, suspected of sinking #migrant boats. 2 #journalists who reported on his criminal activities were given police protection because of death threats. #Bija My latest
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 years
As I watch Polish border guards distributing food&smiles to Ukrainian victims of #Putin ’s #war ,I can’t help but think this is the same border force pushing Syrian #refugees ,also victims of Putin’s war, back to Belarus,so I wrote about it. #Ukraine
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
My dispatch from the #Poland / #Belarus border with pics by ⁦⁦ @AlessioMamo ⁩ , where #migrants are trapped as scapegoats between violence & false promises, in a show of military force unknown in the country since the end of the cold war. #refugees
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
I interviewed #RichardGere after judge allowed him as witness in trail vs Salvini, accused of kidnapping #migrants .Gere chuckled when asked what he thinks about Meloni who said he is in search of visibility.“Gere says:“I’m actually searching for anonymity”
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#Italy ’s justice minister is to send inspectors following reports that prosecutors wiretapped phone conversations involving at least 15 #journalists reporting on #migration . Move is 1 of the most serious attacks on press in Italian history. My latest
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Lorenzo Tondo
5 years
13 women dead & 8 children missing after boat capsizes off #Italy . This is what happens nearly every night while you sleep. “Although you may consider yourself absolved, you are involved nonetheless”. My latest for ⁦ @guardian #Libya migrants #Libya
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#Italians are no longer singing on balconies. Now people are more afraid – not so much of #coronavirus , but of poverty.” 3 weeks on from start of #lockdown , Italians are seeing that everything is not all right. My latest with @GiuffridaA #COVID19 #Italy
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2 years
@TGTM_Official @guardian Wow! That’s a story! I will pitch it now!
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
Prosecutors in #Italy launched investigation 4 attempted shipwreck vs #Libya ’s coastguard after video emerged showing officials firing on boat carrying #migrants .Libya’s vessel was supplied to Tripoli by #Rome to redux migrant arrivals. My latest #refugees
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Lorenzo Tondo
11 months
Since the beginning of #Russia ’s full-scale #invasion of #Ukraine ,Russian #propaganda has permeated Italian media,with openly pro-Russian guests invited on the most popular tv shows. A phenomenon that researchers blame on political&historical reasons.(1/3)
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EXCLUSIVE. Two videos shown to ⁦ @guardian ⁩ show groups of asylum seekers stripped of their clothing in near-freezing temperatures & being forced back from the Serbian border into North Macedonia. By ⁦ @katymfallon ⁩ & me. #refugees #Serbia
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1 year
The alleged “hijackers” on a cargo ship stormed by Italian special forces were in fact malnourished #refugees , including a pregnant woman & 2 minors,suffering from hypothermia, with no intention of hijacking the vessel. My latest. #migrants #Italy #Turkey
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Lorenzo Tondo
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I interviewed Pato whose wife and daughter died in the desert on quest for a future in #Europe . The photo of the woman & her child lying dead face down near the border with #Tunisia went viral, becoming latest glimpse of the conditions endured by #refugees
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Lucia, 13, was sexually assaulted&murdered in 1955. For 66 yrs #Church denied her a funeral due to arcane rule. It was finally celebrated on Wed. Her white coffin became symbol of struggle for #justice . My latest #Italy #women #violenceagainstwomen
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#LetiziaBattaglia , legendary #photojournalist who documented #mafia crimes, dies aged 87. Her “photo archive of blood” helped expose brutal reality of mafia and their victims in #Sicily . My latest on 1 of the greatest #photographers of our time. #photos
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2 years
Przemysl train station, near the border btw #Poland & #Ukraine . At platform n. 4, trains arrive with Ukrainian #refugees fleeing the country. At platform n.5 five, dozens of Ukrainians are instead returning to the country to join the fighting. #Russia #war #Putin
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3 years
In joint investig8ion with ⁦ @RaiNews ⁩ & ⁦ @DomaniGiornale ⁩, ⁦ @guardian ⁩ saw documents frm prosecutors in #Italy investig8ing NGOs detailing priv8 conversations btw human rights lawyers&their clients, including a priest #migrants ⁦⁦
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Lorenzo Tondo
1 year
Revealed:This is a chart used by prosecutors in #Ukraine to map Russian soldiers&commanders all the way up to #Putin . These are names & mugshots of #Russia ’s military chain of command accused of #war crimes. By me & ⁦ @PjotrSauer ⁩ ⁦ 📸 @AlessioMamo
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 years
On my way on a night train bound for #Kyiv with the perfect reading. #Ukraine #Russia #war
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 years
In 2017 I wrote article about boy & his father who boarded small boat in #Libya to cross the sea to #Europe . But while father was rescued by ngo ship, son was caught by Libyans & returned to detention centre. After 4 years, father & son have now been reunited. #refugees #migrants
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IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳
2 years
In 2017, 10-year-old Eluspa and his father boarded a small boat in Libya to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. It would be the last time they saw each other for four years. With IOM support, the father and son have now been reunited.
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Lorenzo Tondo
3 years
With brilliant colleague ⁦ @KaamilAhmed ⁩ we mapped out rising number of high-tech surveillance &deterrent systems facing #asylumseekers along #EU borders, a digital wall on harsh sea & mountain frontiers, with 1 goal: keep #refugees away. #migration
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3 years
Sometimes I forget how beautiful this city is… #Palermo #Sicily #2022 #NewYear2022 #HappyNewYear
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#Italy ’s far right leaders began preparing their electoral campaign by posting news of crimes committed by “fake #refugees .” On Friday,a Nigerian street seller was beaten to death in broad daylight. By me & ⁦ @GiuffridaA #racism #Migration #BLM #migrants
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Lorenzo Tondo
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@wilsonjamie
Jamie Wilson
5 years
Eritrean man mistakenly identified as a human trafficker by Italian and British authorities finally released after more than 3 years in jail - brilliant and tenacious work by colleague @lorenzo_tondo who has led the reporting on this case
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Lorenzo Tondo
2 years
Citizens trapped in #Mariupol are running out of water. They melt snow & use a juice carton box as a pot. #Ukraine #war #Russian #invasion #Putin
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Lorenzo Tondo
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“If State doesn’t step in to help families, #mafia will provide its services, imposing its control over people’s lives.” My latest for ⁦ @guardian ⁩ about Mafia distributing food to #Italy ’s struggling residents in #quarantine #COVID19 #coronavirus
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Lorenzo Tondo
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Italian court acquits all crew members of ⁦ @IuventaCrew ⁩ rescue boat who had been accused of aiding illegal #migration , in a case seen by activists as a symbol of the criminalisation of those who have sought to help #refugees . #Iuventa #migrants
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4 years
#icantbreathe is also last call for help among those dying in Mediterranean, condemned to death at hands of criminal policies.” At least 35 people dead as #migrant boat sinks off #Tunisia . ⁦ @openarms_fund ⁩ ⁦ @RescueMed ⁩ ⁦ @SeaWatchItaly
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Lorenzo Tondo
6 years
‘We prefer to die on this #ship #migrants told @MSF_Sea when offered to be transferred to a #Libyan medical facility. My latest for @guardian about 81 #people refusing to leave cargo and be sent back to detention camps in #Libya . @MSF_Press #Refugees
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2 years
109 empty strollers were placed in the main square in Lviv in memory of the 109 Ukrainian #children #killed since the beginning of the Russian #invasion . #Ukraine #Russia #war #Putin
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Since #Ukraine banned men from leaving the country, Ukrainian transgender people who are attempting to cross borders are often searched&mistreated by border guards & sent back to war-torn cities. My latest. 📸 by ⁦ @AlessioMamo ⁩. #Russia #war #LGBT
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“We tried to explain who we were but they put us in a van and kicked us out of the country”. #Croatia wrongly deports #Nigerian table tennis players to #Bosnia mistaking them for undocumented #migrants . My latest for ⁦ @guardian #Refugees #Balkans
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“We meet scared eyes, bodies destroyed by the cold. Freezing, hungry humans. I had no idea what hunger meant. I knew nothing about hunger.” Incredible op-ed piece by Anna Alboth for @guardian from #Poland refugees #Belarus #migrants @GrupaGranica
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#Croatia Police shot #migrant attempting to cross border & suggest it was unitentional. I interviewed 4 eyewitnesses telling different story. In the background, #snow & #migrants living like homeless in #Bosnia . My latest for ⁦⁦ @guardian #Europe
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@walkingborders ⁩ alerted authorities almost 1 month ago about the presence of a boat in distress with about 130 #migrants . The same boat was found on Tuesday, off #CapeVerde with only 38 survivors & 7 bodies. My latest. #refugees #Senegal #migration
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