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Nasser Ridhwan, "I had nothing in life but my wife, who I’ve now lost"
		Nasser Ridhwan, 78, is a recent arrival in the al-Mazraq camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Haradh District, Hajjah Governorate, some 130km southwest of his home village of Mashnaq, near Dukhan Mountain, which has become a battleground in fighting between the Saudi army and Houthi-led Shia rebels. full testimony
Dabbas Haile, "When life is hard, you have to be tough"
		I come from the Gash Barka region of Eritrea, near the Sudanese border. I escaped from prison and left my country on 1 January 2004 to come to Sudan and then Egypt, where I was jailed again. full testimony
Abdullah Kahiya, "Cairo is better than Mogadishu, but life is still hard"
		In the third of a series of interviews with refugees living in Cairo, IRIN spoke to Abdullah Bare Kahiya, 31, about why he left home, and the prospects he has in this host country. full testimony
Noor Shamari, "In Cairo, we have no prospects"
		In the second of a series of interviews with refugees living in Cairo, IRIN spoke to Noor Shamari (not her real name), a divorced Shia mother-of-two from Mansour District in Baghdad about why she left home, and the prospects she has in this host country. full testimony
John Simon, "I don’t know where I will be tomorrow"
		In the first of a series of interviews with refugees living in Cairo, IRIN spoke to John Simon (not his real name), a 33-year-old Dinka from Southern Sudan, about why he left home, and what prospect he faces in this host country. full testimony
Huda Omar, "My children cry out for food day and night"
		Huda Omar, 30, fled war-torn Somalia by boat in 2006 to Oman, where she spent more than two and a half years before paying traffickers to smuggle her to Yemen. full testimony

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