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Francesca Mannocchi is a freelance journalist. She contributes to Italian TV, including RAI-3, La7, Skytg24 and international newspapers such as L’Espresso, Al Jazeera English, MEE and Stern. In recent years, she has covered wars and the migration crisis in Iraq, Syria, the Balkans, Lebanon, Turkey and Libya and co-directed the documentary “If I Close My Eyes,” on the lost generation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, with war photographer Alessio Romenzi. In 2016, she won the Premiolino, the most important journalistic award in Italy.
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Increasing numbers of Libyans are breaking a long-standing taboo and fleeing across the Mediterranean. Four Libyans explain why seven years after the revolution they must find a way out even if it means using smugglers.
Last year, the number of women making the journey from Nigeria to Italy, via Libya, was almost double that of the year before. But in their attempt to escape crippling poverty, the women end up caught in trafficking rings, abused and exploited.
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