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Simon Speakman Cordall

‘I wake up in pain’: Refugees struggle in Tunisian winter

Abdullah Babaker, a Sudanese refugee in Tunis, said police confiscated his UNHCR refugee card granting him legal status in the country [Simon Speakman Cordall/Al Jazeera]

Tunis, Tunisia – “It’s very cold. I don’t have no tent,” the 22-year-old woman, who says her name is Jessica, tells Al Jazeera, her friend’s baby boy hanging from her neck.

“I just use the carton,” she says of the cardboard she sleeps upon. It is her only protection against the cold and the night air. “I hurt when I wake up.”

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