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Huge camp in Calais takes on sense of permanence

By Associated Press in Calais, France | China Daily | Updated: 2015-08-10 07:45

Hundreds live in squalor as they await asylum or passage to Britain

The kitchen is a rustic grill under a tarp in a fetid-smelling camp teeming with migrants. But for Zubair Nazari, it means survival.

The teen, who ended up in the port city of Calais, France, after a perilous escape from the Taliban, sticks with a group of fellow Afghans who do their best to re-create the tastes of home - a stew of eggs, onions and tomatoes - amid a stretch of squalor known as "the jungle."

Huge camp in Calais takes on sense of permanence

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