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Der Samba, a former fisherman from Senegal, cannot shed the nightmare memories of his two previous attempts to reach Europe: the dozens of friends and strangers on the crowded little boat who died before his eyes. The bodies he had to throw into the sea. The terror and humiliation of being stripped naked by officials in Morocco and told to walk out of the desert on his own. By Nana Mohammed But Samba, 27, is ready to try again. Now back in his mother’s tiny house in his hometown of Fass Boye, Samba is plotting his third attempted escape. “I’m…

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