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A long line of people appears in silhouette, walking along the flat desert in northern Niger.

More than 4,500 migrants are in this corner of the Sahara; mainly Malians, Guineans and Ivorians mainly, but also Syrians and Bangladeshis.

ASSAMAKA: A long line of people appears in silhouette, walking along the flat desert in northern Niger. The strong walkers are at the front. The weakest at the rear. Every week hundreds more migrants thrown out of Algeria end up here in Assamaka, the first village on the Niger border. More than 4,500 of them so far have washed up in this tiny windswept corner of the Sahara —

A long line of people appears in silhouette, walking along the flat desert in northern Niger.

"The Algerian military and police told us that the IOM here in Niger would take us to our country. I arrived on 11 January, its been three months now. When we arrived here we were told that we were not recognised as IOM migrants and that we have to pay for our transport to return home." Abdoul-Kari

Every week hundreds more migrants thrown out of Algeria end up here in Assamaka, the first village on the Niger border

A long line of people appears in silhouette, walking along the flat desert in northern Niger. The strong walkers are at the front.

A long line of people appears in silhouette, walking along the flat desert in northern Niger.

Thousands of migrants stranded in north Nigers scorching desert

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