Monday, November 29, 2004
Billy's Journey: Crossing the Sahara - BBC News
...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.
Our driver stopped and showed us the graves of seven people, including a 21-year-old woman from Nigeria. 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. ...
[See the sidebar of that article for more stories in this "African migrants' elusive dream" series]
...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.
Our driver stopped and showed us the graves of seven people, including a 21-year-old woman from Nigeria. 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. ...
[See the sidebar of that article for more stories in this "African migrants' elusive dream" series]
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