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THE END OF THE ROAD 1984-1986 -- For his next project, which would lead to Sahel in Africa, Sebastiao began working with MSF. I worked in Ethiopia in 1984. And then I continued throughout the Sahel, 85 and 86. Finally, spend nearly two years in a row in this region doing a story about hunger. There was a refugee camp, the largest in the history of mankind so far. I had a wild desire to show that. To show that there was a large part of humanity is living in poverty. Which it was mostly a problem of deals, not just a question of natural disasters. ... Dying here is like a continuation of life. People get used to die. === The skin of the people were like the bark of trees. Trees marked by wind and sand, by sandstorms. There were only women and children. The men went to Libya to work, or they migrated to Ivory Coast in search of work with the promise to return and bring food for the family. But very few returned.