(1 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Agadez, Niger – 7 April 2024
1. Wide of people and vehicles in street
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Agadez, Niger – 30 January 2024
2. Migrants lining up before boarding pickup truck
3. Various of migrants next to vehicle
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Agadez, Niger – 1 February 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Sadio Diallo, Senegalese migrant:
“My aim once I get to Europe is to join the French army, because I want to go to France, as I was a soldier in Senegal, I prefer that when I get to Europe to continue my service (in the army).”
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Agadez, Niger – 30 January 2024
5. Various of migrants waiting for vehicles
6. Migrants jumping into pickup truck
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Agadez, Niger – 1 February 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mawuena Davis, migrant from Ghana:
“So I’m just coming for Agadez now. I want to go Libya, but I’m scared.”
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Agadez, Niger – 5 February 2024
8. Migrant standing in desert
9. Truck packed with people
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Agadez, Niger – 1 February 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mawuena Davis, Ghanaian migrant:
“Afraid, one because the desert is cold, and the weather and everything, but I’m not still afraid to go.”
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Agadez, Niger – 5 February 2024
11. Various of migrants in vicinity of Agadez
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Paris, France – 8 March 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Fereday, Senior Analyst at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime:
“The repealing of the law in Niger is already having an important impact on the number of migrants who are travelling and is facilitating these movements.”
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Agadez, Niger – 5 February 2024
13. Various of migrants in and around trucks
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Agadez, Niger – 26 April 2024
14. Chehu Azizou sitting in his office
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Chehu Azizou, Alarmephone Sahara project coordinator:
"In November (2023), there was one departure (of migrants from Agadez to Libya), in December (2023), there were 4 departures, in January (2024) there were 5 departures, in February (2024) 4 departures, in March (2024) 4 departures and here we are in April and there have already been 3 departures pending the one on Tuesday (April 30, 2024) and with each departure, some 2,000 people (migrants) leave for Libya.”
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Agadez, Niger – 1 February 2024
16. Migrants waiting next to pickup truck
17. Wide of traffic in Agadez
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Paris, France – 8 March 2024
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Fereday, Senior Analyst at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime:
“They (migrants) face a lot of risks, risks of arrest and detention, risks of expulsion from Algeria, so there are still a lot of factors that are continuing to impede the movement of migrants further north.”
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Agadez, Niger – 5 February 2024
19. Migrants waiting next pickup truck in vicinity of Niamey
20. Various of pickup trucks leaving Agadez with migrants
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Agadez, Niger – 26 April 2024
21. Chehu Azizou in his office
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Chehu Azizou, Alarmephone Sahara project coordinator:
“We have listed around 9,000 people (migrants) who have been refouled from Algeria (for Niger) since the beginning of the year until this April 2024.”
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Agadez, Niger – 5 February 2024
23. Wide of migrants walking in vicinity of Agadez
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Agadez, Niger – 7 April 2024
24. Wide of vehicle carrying migrants leaving Agadez for Libya
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