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Lebanon economic crisis

‘Tossed us like rubbish’: Stranded Ethiopian migrants in Lebanon plea for repatriation

MEE staff
Published date: 18 June 2020 19:52 BST | Last update: 2 years 9 months ago
Dozens of Ethiopian migrants in Lebanon, who have been abandoned outside their country’s consulate by their employers, are pleading for repatriation after days of sleeping on the streets of Beirut
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