Poverty smashes families, and survivors of the breakup find their food security is precarious.Ousmane Traore was forced to leave home at the age of eight, when his father died and his mother married a man who didn't want the child to live with them. Since then, he's inhabited the streets of Bamako with casual companions. They hang around together at traffic lights, at the market or at the airport; they wander for days on end, always on the watch for the odd coin or the big chance. In passers-by they inspire both pity and fear.
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