Refugees from Mali continue to stream into the Mbera camp in Mauritania, where they number in the tens of thousands.
Mbera, Mauritania Refugee camp
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Sisters Aicha (L) and Fatima Hamadi (R) and their brother 10-year-old Omar Ould Hamadi in front of their home at Mbera refugee camp in southern Mauritania. In March, the Hamadi children fled their home in Timbuktu, Mali with their parents.
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Aicha Hadiya Wallet Mohamed, a 27-year-old refugee from the town of Farech in northern Mali, teaches children at a school in the Mbera refugee camp.
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Malian refugee children attend a school in the Mbera refugee camp.
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Timal Bara, 35, and her 5-year-old daughter Ka-Bito Bara near the Mbera refugee camp in southern Mauritania. In March, Bara and her daughter fled their home in Lere, Mali, after hearing gunshots when Tuareg rebels entered the town, and settled just outside the official Mbera camp grounds.