Africa Immigrants Are the Most Valued Commodity

Author:
What's Up Africa
Publisher:
What's Up Africa
Publication Date:
15 May 2015
Tags:
Africa, Migration

In this week's What's Up Africa, satirist Ikenna Azuike finds out that immigration is a lucrative business. This year alone, around 60,000 migrants have risked their lives trying to cross from Africa into Europe, often fleeing violence and persecution. Nearly 50,000 others are in Israel. But as Ikenna Azuike has been finding out, huge amounts of money are being made from their plight -- and not just from people traffickers.

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