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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Soule DIA

Unregistered Senegal Youth Struggle For Legal Status

While 98 percent of births are registered in Europe, the number stands at just 44 percent in Africa (Credit: AFP)

It was only when 12-year-old Senegalese schoolboy Lassou Samb prepared to sit his end-of-year exams that his lack of any legal documentation finally caught up with him.

Like many young people in the West African country, Samb was never registered at birth, an oversight with potentially profound consequences for his education.

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