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Refugee who met his wife on Manus Island pleads to stay

Alex Harun Rashid and his family, partner Molly Noan and children Mohammed and Almiera

Not all of the refugees living on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island want to leave. A small number have settled there and one of them is pleading with the government to give him citizenship to stay with his young family. The Rohingya man has two children with his local partner but says he has no documentation to live or work in the country. Details can be heard here in Dari.


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Not all of the refugees living on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island want to leave. A small number have settled there and one of them is pleading with the government to give him citizenship to stay with his young family. The Rohingya man has two children with his local partner but says he has no documentation to live or work in the country. Details can be heard here in Dari.



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