Thousands of migrants have died after suffering 'extreme' abuse while crossing Africa, according to a UN report on Wednesday that estimated 72 people perish each month on the continent's routes. Migrants UN Europe
Thousands of migrants have died after suffering “extreme” abuse while crossing Africa, according to a UN report on Wednesday that estimated 72 people perish each month on the continent’s routes.
Most migrants making such journeys experience or witness “unspeakable brutality and inhumanity” by smugglers, traffickers, militias and sometimes state actors, the UNHCR said. The report, he said, documents “killings and widespread violence of the most brutal nature, perpetrated against desperate people fleeing war, violence and persecution.”
And many of those who try to cross the Mediterranean are stopped and turned back by the Libyan coastguard.
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