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Simon Speakman Cordall

In a Tunisian town, Sudanese refugees wait in fear for UN protection

Abdelrahim, from Ethiopia, is waiting in Zarzis, Tunisia for UN protected status as a refugee [Simon Speakman Cordall/Al Jazeera]

Zarzis, Tunisia – It is unlikely that the relatively small tourist and fishing town of Zarzis, near the border with Libya, is somewhere the several hundred or so Sudanese refugees ever imagined they would end up.

Nevertheless, here they are. Sitting around the edges of the small, careworn tourist zone, as sunburned German tourists pass by, oblivious to their presence.

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