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10 May 2022
Update: How The African Students Who Fled Ukraine Are Doing
As Ukraine and Russia continue their struggle for power, we look at the lives the conflict displaced and traumatized.
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10 May 2022
David, Mechanical Engineering Student from Nigeria
"Some of my friends went back to Nigeria. But, I can’t go back. I suffered traveling here in the first place."
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10 May 2022
Bayero, a Medical Student from Nigeria
"Ukrainians pushed, screamed, and cursed their way to the front of the border - and nobody stopped them. But if a foreigner tried that? They'll kick, hit, anything. They were so, so violent."
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10 May 2022
Eldred, A Computer Science Student from Nigeria
"They're not telling us anything. They just dropped us here without telling us anything."
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10 May 2022
Mohammed, a Medical Student from South Africa
"The Ukrainians don't have a second home. We have South Africa to return to... They don't have that security or guarantee."
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22 March 2022
The Power of Social Media and The African Diaspora
Africans across the world organized themselves into becoming reliable resources for African students stranded in war-torn Ukraine to depend on - as their home embassies suggested "staying calm".
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