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Katherina (Kate) Thomas writes about global issues, with a focus on Africa.
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Three years after the French intervention in northern Mali, thousands of refugees in neighboring Burkina Faso are still afraid to go home. Mali’s conflict may be over, but its border areas remain deeply unstable, with jihadist militant groups still believed to be operating.
Some 11,500 people are stranded at the makeshift camp at Idomeni, Greece, where conditions are steadily worsening amid recent rains. Authorities now plan to clear the camp in weeks. Following our interactive map, Fortress Europe and Beyond, we share the work of three photojournalists who captured the dire conditions for Spanish photo-documentation NGO Fotomovimiento.
A study published in the British Medical Journal has found that refugees in Sweden have a substantially higher risk of schizophrenia and nonaffective psychotic disorders than other migrants. We spoke with the study’s lead author, Anna-Clara Hollander of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute.
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