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Karam Hassan: from Sudanese refugee to l'Oréal executive

Africanews EN • March 13, 2026

Karam Hassan was arrested the moment he returned home. Sudan, December 2013: fresh from his studies in India, he was accused of opposing the government, imprisoned, then forced to inform on his own neighbors. "It became unbearable, unlivable," he says. "I decided to flee."