Warning that smugglers may now be broadening a death trap for migrants and refugees that could stretch from the Mediterranean to the vast Sahara Desert, the United Nations refugee agency has reiterated its call for safe pathways so that those in desperate need of international protection do not lose their lives.
The alarm has been raised by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees () as some 44 migrants and refugees – including women and children – are??when the truck they were travelling in (to Libya) broke down in the desert in northern Niger, exposing them to extreme heat and lack of drinking water.
Only six could be saved.
It is quite clear that human smugglers will go to any extent to exploit desperate?