For instance, the IOM admits, “[S]ome experts believe that more migrants die while crossing the Sahara Desert than in the Mediterranean Sea.” Abdel Salam, who runs a small business in the town, ...

Two men died in Dirkou, according to Abba Tchéké, a social worker who assisted the men there and who works for Alarm Phone Sahara, a nonprofit that rescues stranded migrants in the desert.

In Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, migrants are brought to remote ... And then, they were left alone. The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world. Even its perimeter, characterized by ...

A group of migrants arriving from Mauritania in April 2024. The photo was taken in the desert, somewhere along ... migrants trying to return via Western Sahara," revealed Gilles Lebreton, member ...

More than 80 African migrants were rescued on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020 after being found in a remote stretch of the Sahara Desert where hundreds of others have died along the perilous journey in ...

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona — A remote desert region along the southern border has become a makeshift international arrivals area for thousands of migrants from Africa ...

Two times more migrants die in the Sahara than at sea With more people estimated to cross the Sahara Desert than the Mediterranean Sea – and deaths of refugees and migrants in the desert presumed to ...

A few days later, though, AFP gathered testimony from hundreds of migrants still stuck in the Ras Jedir buffer zone ... They arrested me in the street and then took me down to the Sahara desert." He ...

Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as “Point Zero” after being apprehended in Algerian cities.

Niger: Dozens of people traversing the Sahara desert on their way to Europe are ... routes from West Africa to Europe. Hundreds of migrants have died this month when their boats sank as they ...

In May 2023, Border Forensics studied the paths of the migrants and found that due to the law in Niger and these other mechanisms the Sahara had become an “open-air tomb.” ...