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Simon Speakman Cordall

Near Sfax, refugees scramble after violent clashes with Tunisia police

Guinean refugees are camping on wasteland on the outskirts of Sfax, Tunisia [Simon Speakman Cordall/Al Jazeera]

Sfax, Tunisia – On the outskirts of Tunisia’s second-largest city and the destination point for thousands of sub-Saharan African refugees hoping to get to Europe, 15-year-old Osman Bah from Guinea points to his sleeping quarters.

The spot is hard to make out among the grey sand and plastic bags scattered across the wasteland, but it is there, he says, in the lee of some piled-up dirt and stones.

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