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Migrants Risk Lives for Europe


World  (tags: West Africa, Sahara desert, migration, Europe, deadly crossing, Refugees&Relief )

Dee
- 101 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Panorama reporter Paul Kenyon has returned to West Africa to trace the route of African migrants as they attempt a deadly four-day crossing of the Sahara desert on foot.
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Dee C. (528)
Monday September 14, 2009, 3:24 pm
"The man from the Libyan security services held a black beret over his nose. We had been walking in the heat for more than an hour across the dunes.

Along the way we had seen discarded T-shirts and jeans, the occasional rucksack, and now this. The body was fresh, around two weeks old.

It was that of a young man, clothed in a chocolate-brown T-shirt and faded jeans. There was no visible injury, no blood. He was lying on his back, propped awkwardly against the hot Saharan rocks."

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Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (268)
Wednesday September 16, 2009, 4:41 am
Such a deparate situtation for these poor people... the risks and ahrdships they face is enormous... only to find some do not make it and then they are sent back... These countries where they originate from must start implementing changes so that people do not leave in droves
 
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