Peril on the migrant route in southern Africa
By DW
14 December 2022 |
3:29 pm
Undocumented migrants who leave their countries in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region increasingly risking death as they near their destination in southern Africa. Many of them are young Ethiopians.
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