CNN producer goes undercover to get smuggled from Nigeria to Libya to Europe

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The Dankster said:
They're refugees fleeing conflict or economic migrants in search of better opportunities in Europe, most having sold everything they own to finance the journey.
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What parts of Africa are they coming from where conditions are so shytty that they are willing to take such high risks ?
 
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It’s crazy, but you can’t talk to some of these people who are thristy to reach the West..

I met a dude overseas trying to reach Greece by crossin a river in Turkey and then trying to reach Easter Europe, Belarus I think he was headed to.. I was telling him do you have any idea what Belarus is like, or if it’s infested with neo Nazis.. you could end up loosing your life or freedom breh.. he wouldn’t hear it..

Next time I went back he was back in the same place after doing a few months in a Turkish jail.. mind you he’s probably lucky he didn’t reach his destination.. a few other cats I used to watch/play soccer with while there made it to the US and Italy, but they are few and far in between..
 
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Dwayne Taylor said:
What parts of Africa are they coming from where conditions are so shytty that they are willing to take such high risks ?
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I believe the CNN producer who did the story is Somali. Last I looked (I admit it been a minute since I was paying attention to it specifically) Somalia still doesn't have a meaningfully functioning government, had basically warlords controlling various sectors, and had major terrorist activity. Then they've been hit by drought and hunger on top of that. Whether you talking human rights or law-and-order or basic economics or just food security, they're in a difficult state.

There's an area of Chad/Niger/Cameroon/Nigeria has been hit by a massive drought and famine right now that hardly anyone talking about. Hundreds of thousands of people have been trying to flee to anywhere with food. Add in Boko Haram terrorism from one side and Al Queda/Isis terrorism from the other side, and some regions of those countries ain't been a great place to be recently.

Nigeria's oil-based economy (nonrenewable raw export-based economies are always counterproductive in the long run) has led to corruption, weakness in other sectors, and employment stagnation, which led to general populist angst which has helped Boko Haram to gain a big foothold in the country. Boko Haram has done horrific things, mass killings, mass kidnappings, just terrorizing communities. So there are refugees fleeing Nigeria, I believe specifically northern Nigeria, for good reason.

South Sudan had been at war with the north of Sudan for like 20 years, finally got independence and eventually a peace deal. Then it all fell apart like 18 months ago and fighting started again, and half a million people fled. Parts of Sudan are affected by that as well.

And then you got Congo, which feels like has been torn apart by war as long as I've been alive. Again, a lot of that is driven by the poor economics of the quick money of nonrenewable raw resources, compounded by a long history of some of the ugliest and most violent colonialism ever, compounded by dirty moves by Rwanda and some of their other neighbors.

I think those are the main sources of the most desperate refugees.
 
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Trajan said:
I hear you. But Libyans were #inherently before Gaddafi fell. They were always xenophobic as fukk + savage
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They are animals disgusting fukking savages and should be exterminated as the bugs they are.
 
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