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A reminder of today's wise words: "A river does not flow through the forest without knocking down trees." Sent by Sallu Kamara from Sierra Leone, and by Nana Efe and Nasiru Tijjani from Nigeria.
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We leave you with this photo of two asylum-seekers sitting under portraits of three renowned international figures - South Africa's Nelson Mandela, the US's George Washington and Turkey's Kemal Ataturk - at a shelter in Berlin, Germany: