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Refugees!
     

ABOUT REFUGEES

An estimated 110,000 Western Saharan people were refugees at the end of 2002, including some 80,000 in Algeria, about 25,000 in Mauritania, and approximately 5,000 in other countries.

 
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Refuges in Somilia
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Residents of Western Sahara, known as ethnic Sahrawis, began fleeing to Algeria in the mid-1970s to escape a war for control over Western Sahara.

 

Questions we would ask a refugee:

How did you become a refugee?

Did you have any of your friends come with you?

What was it like in your own country before you came to Britain?

Did you feel sad when you left your family?

Why were you forced to leave your country?

How do you feel about living in Britain?

Would you like to return to your own country or stay in Britain?

When were you a refugee?

What was it like in your own country before you moved?

 

 

Names of students who made this here:    
Mothosir, Probir,Omar!    
 
 

 




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