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March 22, 2004
A personal account of refugee traffic in West Africa
In Timbuktu the 15 of us got into the back of a lorry. We travelled by night before reaching Gao, the last stop before the desert.
There, we met thousands of other migrants waiting for transport across the Sahara.
We bought bread and tinned sardines for the journey. We poured water into the inner tubes of car tyres, which hold more than bottles. Normally we only travelled at night.
That first afternoon, our driver stopped and showed us the graves of seven people, including a 21-year-old woman from Nigeria.
He said he had found their bodies - their lorry had broken down in the middle of the desert and they had waited in vain for help, before dying of thirst.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Billy's journey: Crossing the Sahara
Posted by thdyck on March 22, 2004
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