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He entered at eight. He is now 16: Ghana’s children growing up in prayer camps

He entered at eight. He is now 16: Ghana’s children growing up in prayer camps — photograph supplied by MyJoyOnline

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At eight years old, Hafiz Abdallah was taken to Nyinbonya, a prayer camp in Paga, near Ghana’s border with Burkina Faso. He is now 16. For eight years, his mother says, her son has lived at the facility without a clinical diagnosis. When his behaviour becomes erratic, she says, he is chained. “He…

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