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178,000 People Fled in Months. The World Was Watching Ceuta Instead.
In late July, the world's attention snapped to a stretch of fence between Morocco and Spain, where roughly 70,000 people crossed into the enclave of Ceuta in 48 hours. It made every front page. Meanwhile, in the same general window of time, a considerably larger number of people — more than 178,000 — had already fled or been forced out of a single African country, driven out by house-to-house intimidation, vigilante deadlines, and killings. Almost nobody outside the region ha
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