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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jamey Keaten

Land routes across Africa are twice as deadly for migrants as Mediterranean voyages, UN estimates

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The United Nations and partners say more migrants and refugees in Africa are heading northward toward the Mediterranean and Europe, crossing perilous routes in the Sahara where criminal gangs subject them to enslavement, organ removal, rape, kidnapping for ransom and other abuses.

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