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Thousands of migrants in Mauritania who once relied on daily street work to survive have been rounded up, detained in poor conditions and deported to remote borders under an EU-backed effort to halt Atlantic migration routes to Europe. Al Jazeera’s Shola Lawal reports from Nouakchott where those who remain say they are too afraid to step outside.
