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Senegalese Widows Find Their Way to Independence

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Over the past decade, thousands of young migrants have left Senegal in fishing boats to seek work in Europe. Many have died at sea, leaving their loved ones behind. That’s given rise to a whole new class of women in Senegal, known as the ‘sea widows’.

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