Algeria: The new migrant staging post for Europe

Ousmane, from Mali. works mending shoes at the Casbah market in Algiers. PHOTO | IRIN

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  • Gerwinio averted his gaze and kept walking. He has become used to such racist taunts. “I was called ‘Ebola’ so often that I changed it into my Facebook name,” he says.