Ilakaka, Dangerous Saphirre (29 images)

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Along RN7, the most visited road, in the south of Madagascar, there is a town where few tourist ever stop except for taking the "Taxi-Brousse" (local transportation).

Ilakaka is a mushroom village that came out of the desert when a Sapphire mine was discovered in 1998. Hope of fortune coexist with poverty and often misery. It is a chaotic and lawless place with violence, prostitution, corruption and high social problem as many children work instead of going to school....
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