Al Jazeera: Walk or die: Algeria abandons 13,000 refugees in the Sahara
Associated Press report details witness accounts of migrants and refugees from Africa left to die in the Sahara Desert.
Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the Sahara Desert over the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, expelling them without food or water and forcing them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under a blistering sun. Some never make it out alive.
The expelled migrants and refugees can be seen coming over the horizon by the hundreds, appearing at first as specks in the distance under temperatures of up to 48 degrees Celsius.
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Update: Algeria expels thousands of migrants in forced Sahara march (AP)
WNU Editor: Algeria is sending a clear message to every African migrant, do not come to Algeria.
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