Packed into squalid cabins, smallpox, typhoid and tuberculosis broke out among them. Accustomed to the care of their mistresses when they were ill in slave days, they did not know how to nurse themselves or their sick.
Malik Muhammad a teacher who has just fled to Chad from West Darfur, laments the squalid conditions that the children he used to teach are now forced to live in.
A 2014 report by the U.S. Department of Labor concluded that one out of five Sub-Saharan children are working under difficult if not squalid conditions.