Special envoy to Aleppo (Syria)
He is of war age: 10 years at most. With his t-shirt with holes and his bare feet, he slips onto the sidewalk of the new souk, which the shops light up with a garish glow. At the start of the winter evening, figures walk around, and sometimes stop in front of a window. A passer-by slips a polystyrene tray filled with still hot corn, bought on a mobile cart, into the child's palm. A little sister is waiting for her at the end of the alley, near the cars at the crossroads honking their horns. The two dusty mops share the booty in silence. So goes the life of the new poor on the streets, around the cathedrals district of Aleppo, the front line between 2012 and 2016.
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The war by arms has given way to an even more dramatic economic war"
, we hear in the second city of the country, where 90% of the population remains below the poverty line.
Shortages punctuate daily life.
Bruised by a civil war of ...
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