Source: Reuters - AlertNet
Country: Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Italy, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal
Source: Reuters - Fri, 19 Jun 2015 05:59 GMT
Author: Reuters
Record migrant numbers headed for Europe worries Niger
Police extract bribes from migrants, smugglers
Agadez seen as an 'El Dorado' for corrupt security forces
Authorities promise zero tolerance for graft under new law
By Daniel Flynn
AGADEZ, Niger (Reuters) - In the desert town of Agadez in central Niger, almost anyone can tell you where to find the smugglers' compounds concealing African migrants headed for Europe and when the weekly convoy departs across the Sahara.
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