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Moroccan activists work to identify deceased migrants and give them proper burials

These screengrabs were taken from a video of the funeral of a Sudanese migrant in the town of Oujda in northeastern Morocco on Saturday, August 13, 2022. © Hassan Ammari

Victims of exhaustion, violence or disease, many migrants die each year on their journey to Europe. In Morocco, a country that lies on a common route taken by undocumented migrants to reach Spain, one volunteer organisation is working to identify those who died along the way and give them dignified burials. 

Many people from sub-Saharan Africa attempting to reach Europe cross the Moroccan-Algerian border. Bodies are often discovered along the border, which stretches 500 kilometres from Saïda, in northern Morocco, to the southern town of Figuig. 

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