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Mirabelle 18, an angel on the road to resilience

To escape the lust of her mother’s husband, 18-year-old Mirabelle decides to leave the family unit in Nigeria for Burkina Faso, abandoning her mother and five youngest children. But in the host country, the illusion turns short for the girl. Coming with the promise of a well-documented job in stores in Burkina Faso, Mirabelle realizes …

Experts explain migrants’ rights, free movement, laws and international conventions

Migration is neither a problem nor a crime. Throughout the history of mankind, people have always felt the need to move from one part of the world to another to find better living conditions or for various other reasons. The advent of communities and borders at a certain stage of life on this planet has …

Guinea: a young man narrates his misfortune on the migration route

There are many young Guineans returning home after trying to cross the Mediterranean clandestinely without success. Boubacar Sow is one of them. Like everyone else, he had left Guinea hoping for a better life. But as expected, the rest was hellish. This is what emerges from his story. Dialogue Migration went to meet him. Aged …

Makaila Nguebla, the former exile who now whispers in the ear of the Chadian President

Our guest of the day has a rich and winding background. From his first posts in 2000, Makaila Nguebla, a Chadian journalist and blogger, incurred the wrath of the regime of Idriss Déby senior, who ruled Chad from 1990 to 2021. He then went into exile in Senegal, in the country of Teranga; he became …

Migrant Story: From Death to Love or How the War in Sierra Leone Led Mariama Konté to Her Senegalese Husband

From 1991 to 2002, the civil war that broke out in Sierra Leone left at least 120,000 dead (200,000 dead according to the CIA), thousands of people maimed (amputation of hands to prevent them from working and especially from voting) and more than 2.5 million displaced people. It has destroyed families, destabilized an entire country, …

Ankaa: An album in the works for Cupidon

Migration is not only in the Africa-Europe direction. There are also those who choose the opposite path like the Franco-Congolese artist-musician Ankaa. Dialogue Migration takes you to discover this exceptional artist who talks about the reasons for her move to Benin, her musical projects and her prospects six years after leaving France, the country where …