Aisha Bangura, from Sierra Leone, checks her friend's hair for lice in Sfax, Tunisia, where they are sleeping rough while waiting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Tunisia has become the top departure country for people who are trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea on the so-called Central Mediterranean migration route, which the UN has called the deadliest in the world.

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