Eighty-three migrants were saved last week after their smugglers abandoned them in the Sahara desert in northern Niger, the International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday.
The 83 comprised 75 Nigerians, 41 of them women, including twin four-year-old girls, as well as four Togolese, three Ghanaians, and a Malian.They had left the Nigerien town of Agadez, the main stepping-off point for African migrants trying to cross into Europe via Libya, a week earlier. “We were stranded for three days without food or water. We searched for water, but all we found were dirty wells used by livestock. So we were not able to drink at all,” a 25-year-old Nigerian identified as Dennis told the IOM.
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