For years, the flames of oil fields in southern Iraq have lit the skies but darkened lives.
Communities there live in the shadow of toxic gas flares that never die out and despite repeated pledges to end the burning – the smoke keeps rising and so do cancer cases.
Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed has more from Basra.
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