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For migrants, African land routes twice as deadly as Mediterranean

Extreme forms of violence, human rights violations and exploitation afflict those fleeing for safety by land and sea.

New conflicts are driving people to flee by dangerous land routes.
New conflicts are driving people to flee by dangerous land routes. (AN/Sam Mann/Unsplash)

A new report estimates refugees and migrants headed to Europe are more likely to be killed on African land routes, particularly in the dangerous Sahara Desert crossing, than on Mediterranean sea routes.

Extreme violence, human rights violations and exploitation afflict those fleeing by land and sea, the U.N.'s refugee and migration agencies, UNHCR and IOM, and Mixed Migration Centre reported on Friday.

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