Niger: the business of migrants, a "Grand report" by Stanislas Ndayishimiye

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Migrants leave the city of Agadez to reach Libya in an attempt to reach Europe.

(Illustrative image June 2015) © AFP / ISSOUF SANOGO

By: Stanislas Ndayishimiye

RFI is in mourning after the death, Saturday, November 20, 2021, of our colleague Stanislas Ndayishimiye.

We invite you to listen to one of his reports. 

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Many Africans "take 

 " is the term they use to say that they want to join Europe.

Niger is a transit country.

Usually, more than 500,000 migrants pass through this country to reach the North.

At that time, in 2006, thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were turned back

Senegalese, Malians or Cameroonians.

It was thought that this would discourage applicants from the start.

But in Agadez, in central Niger, a transit town, migrants are still waiting to cross the desert to the Mediterranean.

Stanislas Ndayishimiye had met them.

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