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Published on: Tuesday 28 October 2025

One morning in late 2023, in an informal settlement in Niger's Agadez city, 49-year-old Bilal – a “passeur”, or smuggler who arranges migrants’ journeys to Europe – pocketed CFA200,000 ($350) from a ...

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