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A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail
WestAfricaWoman Illustration: Carl Godfrey/The Guardian In recent years, women who have become trapped in sex work in the Niger city of Agadez have found a new way to blot of the pain of what their lives have become. Crack cocaine. Agadez has long been …