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They are Somalians and came to Lille to tell their fears to the citizens
of the world. For them, the Assembly is a tribune, a megaphone, an opening
to convince people. Their country is threatened by an attack of the coalition
forces currently fighting in Afghanistan alongside the United States.
Somalia is crossing one of the darkest periods among of its history: drought
in the north, floods in the south, and desperate inhabitants, worn out
by the civil war and a disastrous international isolation. What energy
and what determination did the young and beautiful Khadra have to deploy
to leave her nomadic brothers' desert, to cross the country under very
difficult conditions, and to take for the first time of her life a plane
to Lille, a land of the West barely glimpsed on television, over there,
at home?
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