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Migrants face ‘unimaginable horrors’ crossing Africa to reach Mediterranean, says UN
Based on more than 31,000 interviews with refugees and migrants, the report found that 1,180 people were known to have died while crossing the Sahara Desert between January 2020 and May 2024. Five deaths a day are being recorded on the desert routes, …