Nearly every day in Agadez, a sandy, windswept town in the north of Niger Republic, scores of trucks stuffed with African migrants barrel out of town and across the parched and cracked earth, dust swirling around their swivelling tyres, human feet dangling from all sides, on a perilous multi-week journey through the inhospitable Sahara Desert into Libya in the Maghreb region of North Africa, hoping to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, particularly Italy.

Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent 47 days as one of them, journeying from Kano in Nigeria through notorious illegal migrant hubs Zinder, Agadez and Dirkou in Niger, and al Gatrun and Sabha to Tripoli in Libya. He returns to document tales of deaths, starvation, rape, dehumanisation, mental abuse, physical assault, abductions, torture and modern-day enslavement of citizens of Nigeria, Ghana, Niger, South Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia by Arab traffickers who treat dogs better than black Africans.

This collection of images is Fisayo’s desserts from the 47-day odyssey in the dangerous Desert of fatal dreams and hopelessness

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