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Items by Charline Bou Mansour
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In Iraqi Kurdistan, Yazidi girls box their way to a new future after Daesh terror
After the 2014 Daesh genocide which left them reeling from the effects of mass abduction and rape, Yazidi refugee girls are rebuilding their lives with the help of boxing, art and music classes. Emma Loffhagen and Charline Bou Mansour report from Iraqi Kurdistan In a small, dimly-lit cabin in Kurdistan, northern Iraq,...
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6 months from the Beirut blast, there's still no hope of justice
The Lebanese citizens will never forget that in that moment, on 4 August 2020 at 6:08pm, 204 innocent lives were lost, over 6,500 people were injured, 200,000 homes were destroyed, 300,000 people were left homeless and 70,000 workers lost their jobs....
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‘My life’s work is destroyed,’ laments artist after Beirut explosion
Maya Husseini's entire life's work shattered in the Beirut blast which devastated the Lebanese capital on 4 August 2020...
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Lebanese are no longer begging for change. Instead, they are begging to leave.
All talk about any hope for Lebanon’s future seems lost, as a record number of people are so desperate to escape the country...
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Lebanese-British man cycles to Lebanon to raise funds for blast victims
Lebanese-British man Eddie El-Lamaa cycled from London to Beirut to raise money for the Lebanese Red Cross after the Beirut blast...
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Young Lebanese are tired of the bloodshed and want to escape Beirut
One month since the Beirut port explosion, people feel ever more hopeless....
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In Lebanon, women are being killed in their homes because of the lockdown
Calls to domestic violence hotlines increased by 100%...
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Fire, injury and death: What's happening in Lebanon's Tripoli?
At the end of April, Lebanon’s Tripoli witnessed some of the most violent clashes between security forces and protesters since anti-government demonstrations exploded across the country in October. One protester, Mouna Moussi, told MEMO the clashes turned the city into a “war zone”. “At night into being a...
