Algeria abandons 13,000 migrants in the Sahara

[Cathoholic]

Algeria abandons 13,000 migrants in the Sahara

Associated Press

. . . They are the ones who made it out alive.

Here in the desert, Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, stranding them without food or water and forcing them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under temperatures of up to 118 degrees. . . .

. . . Others, disoriented and dehydrated, wander for days before a U.N. rescue squad can find them.

Untold numbers perish along the way; nearly all the more than two dozen survivors interviewed by The Associated Press told of people in their groups who simply could not go on and vanished into the Sahara.

“Women were lying dead, men… Other people got missing in the desert because they didn’t know the way,” said Janet Kamara, who was pregnant at the time. “Everybody was just on their own.”

Her body still aches from the dead baby she gave birth to during the trek and left behind in the Sahara, buried in a shallow grave in the molten sand. Blood streaked her legs for days afterward, and weeks later, her ankles are still swollen. . . .

. . . Kande said the Algerian police stole everything he had earned when he was first detained – 40,000 dinars ($340) and a Samsung cell phone. . . .

. . . The IOM offers them a choice: Register with IOM to return eventually to their home countries or fend for themselves at the border. . .

Algeria abandons 13,000 migrants in the Sahara

From this isolated frontier post deep in the sands of the Sahara, the expelled migrants can be seen coming over the horizon by the hundreds. They look like specks in the distance, trudging miserably across some of the world's most unforgiving terrain in the blistering sun.

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These migrants are being victimized by political upheaval in their countries, but also by incentivizing illegal immigration to Europe, and now more victimization from Europe attempting to pay African countries to slow or stop the migration highways through their own African countries toward Europe.

 

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Where do they come from? Strange that the article doesn’t say.

 

[Cathoholic]

These migrants from across sub-Saharan Africa – Mali, the Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger and more – are part of the mass migration toward Europe, some fleeing violence, others just hoping to make a living.