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TUNISIA, RA'S AJDIR, 2 MARCH 2011
Tunisian-Libyan border; Bangladeshi workers wash their feet at a puddle in the border area where they have to remain untill they can get home. Nobody is taking care of them, their Korean companies Shinhan and Hanil seem to have forgotten about them and so has their govenment. Thousands of refugees, mostly egyptian workers, have stranded in Tunisia, causing a huge chaos at the border. In the last couple of days an estimate of 70.000 refugees have crossed the tunisian border fleeing the hostilities in Libya. In spite of the ongoing efforts of the Tunisian government and NGO's on the ground, there's not enough shelter to house them all. A humanitarian crisis is looming in Tunisia.
Photo: Jeroen Oerlemans
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