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Migrants stay in squalor rather than return home

For many migrants trying to reach Europe, their journeys end well before they're able to leave Africa.

They get caught and deported, ending up in transit countries like Mauritania, Mali and Niger.

As Casey Kauffman reports from Mali, many prefer to live the in squalid conditions of the so-called ghettos, than return home in shame.

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