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What Covid-19 movement restrictions mean for nomadic pastoralists in the Sahel

Ould Ne Salem, a nomadic pastoralist from southeast Mauritania, has been stuck in the country since the outbreak of Covid-19 earlier this year. Like many other nomadic herders in the region, Ould Ne Salem often travels between Mauritania, Senegal and Mali, but he is now facing an almost unprecedented situation:...

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