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BASATINE, YEMEN- MARCH 2008 .In a rubbish-strewn area of Basatine's slums, Bantu refugee Naeima Mohamed Qassim sitswith her daughters Ranya and Sharifa Yagoob on the torn piece of foam where they sleep.Partitioned into four living quarters, they share one room of the corrugated iron shack with twoother fatherless families; the bathroom and the yard that they use for cooking and laundry arecommunal. Naeima's husband abandoned her and the children soon after arriving in Yemen ayear ago. She says that the pressures of starting a new life without money tore the family apart.Finding shelter with other single female refugees, the group are surviving by taking turns to goout begging on the streets of Aden. Naeima is ashamed but it's the only way that she can find tofeed her little girl and new baby. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)