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Their Gaza home was damaged, but they had nowhere else to go. It cost their lives.
South Africa 'feels like a prison' for women amid spate of femicides
Nigerian forces fire at protesters rallying over deaths of detained miners
Survivors recount panic and struggle to breathe in Nigerian prison cell where 37 died
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