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Nigerian Woman Survives 10 Days In Sahara Desert After Being Abandoned By Traffickers

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: June 28, 2017
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A 22-year-old Nigerian woman attempting to migrate into Europe through the harsh Sahara Desert survived after being abandoned by traffickers for 10 days.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the woman, given the nickname Adoara, was the only female among the survivors of a rescue mission on 28 May.

”She left Nigeria in early April hoping for a better future in Europe.

”There were 50 migrants on the pick-up truck when it left Agadez for Libya, but only six are still alive today,” Giuseppe Loprete, Niger Chief of Mission for IOM, said.

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Recounting her ordeal, the Nigerian survivor said: ”We were in the desert for 10 days. After five days, the driver abandoned us.

”He left with all of our belongings, saying he was going to pick us up in a couple of hours, but he never did.”

During the next two days, 44 of the migrants died which persuaded the six left to start walking to look for help.

”We had to drink our own pee to survive,” she told IOM at the agency camp in Niamey, Niger.

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She had left Nigeria with two close female friends, who both died in the desert.

”They were too weak to keep going; we buried a few, but there were just too many to bury and we didn’t have the strength to do it,” she added.

She said when she was weak, two other migrants carried her until a truck driver picked them up and took them to local authorities who then alerted IOM staff in Dirkou in the Agadez Region of north-eastern Niger.

By the time the six survivors reached IOM’s transit centre in Dirkou, Adaora was unconscious.

She received medical assistance, and once recovered, she gave a detailed account of her experience to both the authorities and IOM staff.

Two of the other migrants from the group went back with IOM staff and the authorities to find the dead bodies and identify the victims.

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