Dozens Of Niger Migrants Missing After Being Abandoned In Sahara

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
5 May 2014
Tags:
Niger, Migration, Human Rights

About 30 migrants from Niger are missing in the Sahara desert without food or water after their driver abandoned them once they crossed into neighboring Algeria, military sources in Niger said on Monday. Niger, for decades a transit country for migrants trying to reach North Africa or Europe, has pledged to halt the flow of people through its section of the Sahara after 92 migrants died trying to get to Algeria late last year.

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