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I’m Nico.
I believe that, for people like us, who have spent our lives being oppressed by not only the world around us but by ourselves, the best tasting freedom is to break the shackles of paralyzing insecurity and to breathe in the love for ourselves. We are magic, not in spite of our bodies, but because of them. Because of who we are and how we became. Don’t forget your magnificence. Beauty is a word, make it an essence. Love yourself, you’ll be overwhelmed by your own beauty. For once.
Thousands of people throughout Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania have been displaced as a result of on-going fighting between Malian government forces and the rebel Tuareg group Azawad National Liberation Movement (ANLM) who are fighting for self-determination and an independent region in northern Mali.
It is estimated that since the fighting broke out last month, around 130, 000 people have fled from their homes.
Zaharatha Ahmed, who has fled to Niger from Sanka village in Mali, told the BBC she had run away with her children as they were afraid the rebels would kill them.
“Everyone was running away,” she said.
“People told us that there was fighting and that it wasn’t safe. The owner of the animals we were looking after came and took the animals back. So we had nothing. So we came here.”
Moussa Jibou said he had fled Menaka in the north-east of Mali.
“It’s the first time I saw anything like this in Menaka,” he said.
“It’s very sad to leave everything there. We left our clothes, our animals, even our beds. We have nothing here. It was a question of saving our lives so we had to come.”
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Summer 1992 collection by Azzedine Alaïa
Under a corset-style belt with three buckles a petticoat in broderie anglaise by Saint-Gall is worn over a pair of short in the same fabric.
