Bringing that age families here despite the difficulties they say theyre determined to stay because the money they earn in italy is still fall more than what theyd be paying in india. And with that now youre up to date on d w news im sarah kelly in berlin dont forget you can always follow us on social media you can also get the very latest news on our website thats d. W. Dot com thank you so much for joining us have a great. Six first day of school in the jungle. Or first economy was. Given a tour as grand a moment arrives illegally joining a regular turn on her journey back to freedom. In our interactive documentary Story No Renton returns home on the d w dont come to tanks. Look at. Their heads to run to europe across the Sahara Desert its a pov trodden by hundreds of thousands of people as they try to make it to libya and ultimately europe but now the border is closed at the bidding of the european union. Are dead. This is europes new external border with Border Guards equipped by the e. U. And trained by the e. U. We need people who are going to make the attempt. It means risking their lives. To fill in the beyond around three three days without food or water we were just dumped in the desert it was really bad people were dying or falling ill and the children. And the people here tell us the desert
has been turned into one big cemetery is this the result of Ilion Policies in africa. Desert as far as the eye can see. Where on our way to mali in the share. Both countries played key roles for european Migration Policy. The two african states are expected to keep refugees away in return for European Investment and development and security. Malines there are the two most important Transit Countries for west africa a journey takes us to meet people in both countries in asia to the Capital Niamey and the desert city of a death in mali to the Capital Bamako and the Northern City of daraa. Germanys armed forensics the bundeswehr on patrol in the african desert. Week of out in the field with them germany has been part of the United Nations mission to mali for five years now before rebels and islamists controlled the region many people had to flee the tourney. The german contingent is the largest part of the mission says Lieutenant Colonel sebastien colonel with more than a Fountain Troops we ask of a country so far away could be so important for germany. Effected me and i turned it off. Because we represent German Security interests here as well. More in this day and age we are busy with the challenges of migration flows. And because of its central geographic location mali also plays a role with regard to both migration and potential terrorist activities and
organized crime that is effective united i dont want to. Serve Migration Policy extends Four Thousand kilometers away from germanys borders the german troops mission is reconnaissance who is going way back who could pose a threat the atmospherics tense Time And Again the soldiers are the targets of attacks the last one was just ten days ago. My good little. Commissioner fuels or you have mixed feelings as you leave the camp. But as soon as youre out of the main gate youre concentrating one hundred percent and you keep your eyes peeled. You know as mine is considered the most dangerous u. N. Mission of them all nowhere else in the world have so many blue helmets as the un peacekeepers are called been killed the dead include two germans. The Migration Route has also become a key Smuggling Route for arms and drugs as well as people. So what has the mission
achieved. This was my offer to do it often i think patience is required and of course. We have to assume that this mission. Will continue for many years other notable is good its about helping the million states to rebuild old structures was printed and stand on its own two feet. We leave the camp and drive into the center of count two years ago it was safe to move around here. Now where escorted by six soldiers from mali. Everywhere we look there are signs of violence. But very few signs of State Structures and people say they feel abandoned that they live in terror a. Small place so they are here the islamists
they are here in gal that was also a lot of the body. That is there when i come from the south of mali but ive been stuck here for more than a year because the reeds become too jane giraffes to our wood and that is that oh no there are so many europeans here so many foreign soldiers but they have not brought security there shootings and killings here every day. When they first got here the foreign soldiers were fated as liberators now people say they dont understand what the daily patrols for the city streets are supposed to achieve. They say the soldiers protect themselves first and foremost. The German Mission until recently when news has so far failed to for phone the promise of peace and security. The lack of secure. Is one problem and knowledge poverty and the lack of prospects are
not. Where in the Capital Bamako every second person here lives on the breadline. One of them is how many do my god will. Still or still not have left but i do have his homeland and made it all the way to germany late one evening and you live here now yes yes we sleep yes while you sleep here but you were in germany yes in science and a color house in high in hama right. I am are you cooking. For fruit you have. Its the last day of ramadan and muslims around the world are preparing to break the fast. I mean to micah is celebrating with a piece of meat something he cant usually afford he fled from mali four years ago. His family sold several cow goats and chickens to pay for his passage. Bills syphilitic deadliest the islamists that attacked our village. So my family decided that i should go. I would join you i went through the deserts as far as morocco and. If there traffickers put me in a box and stacked it up with other girls to see if as i was terrified i would suffocate them and they gave me two bottles one with water and the other m. T. A. With urine we must have been drugs or Sleeping Tablets in the bottle of water because i slept all the time. When we set off there were two of us in a container. And when we got to spain the other guy wasnt there anymore. On my. Way of all the. So you know from
spain he made his way through finance to germany said that his application for asylum was rejected and he was deported as. Awful for. Him and i when i cant go back to my village they have banished me did whatever they say im a failure and drove them all to ruin the police and. My wife does not want to see me anymore in it and im not allowed to see my children either they say i do not set a good example and life is hardly bearable follicle will receive. If only there was some way of Earning Money says honey to my guy there but rather than his family would take him back his work as hard as he and dozens of other women and men collect sand from the river and load it onto trucks. The sand is for Building Groups get paid by the Truckload Navas have no time to come for their children. Each person earns about two to three euros a day barely enough to survive on and theres little hope of anything changing soon for themselves or for their children. When the others knock off. Keeps going for a few cents more thats wife and children he says. The children i dream of having my own truck someday taking sand to the Construction Site to my. Knee but i have no money to buy one with. One juice or dreams without money. Because i will have to try again to go to europe. Although i am
aware of the risk before. I do says he can never get ahead on his wages to win his family back so he says hes going to try again even if it means risking his life. Is a poor country despite its Mineral Resources including gold anyway and it has little industry to speak of seventy percent of the labor force here works in farming thats where most of the Circle Development aid flows to. Where on a way to the south of mali and one of the in this model projects a project aimed at tackling the root causes of migration including unemployment. At cashew processing factory. Caches have been found in the region for as long as anyone can remember but the farmers had no way to process large quantities and get
them to market so a spanish state run Development Organization built a factory. Partly funded by even money. The staff are happy to work here as long as they can get by on their wages. Have to lie and try reyes one of them. He says he had a University Place to study law but his family cannot afford to send them to college hes the eldest son his first duty is to provide for his parents and siblings his only hope is this job as him if there were as i dont like this work i think i can use what i learn here in the future but i dont earn enough to feed my family that is out there that i was. All those are the is the foreman of the factory and he tells us the low wages are not his only concern for the whole project is on the verge of failure he says. The real. Problem is the spaniards
built this factory and gave us a few weeks of training with the machines then they just left again if it but when. The factory has no trucks to transport the nuts no Distribution Network no major bias just building a factory is not much help he says. But the stuff wont go without a fight when a factory closed down they collected money in the village to get production started again but the farms wont last forever. A delay says his mother keeps urging him to go to europe but hed rather stay here. Is or why the needle i will have to go to europe that is if the working additions were better with better pay i would stay here to help my mother and father says this and. All
the village elders a warning to others that they tell us that there are hardly any young men laughed and that its difficult to persuade them to stay. Up too late says europe is not only a strain but it could be his only way out. Most people trying to get to europe from west africa go through me share. Asia is the most important Transit Country for migrants from all over west africa many stay in africa and many others want to go further through the desert to libya and then across the Mediterranean Sea to europe. Where in the end they the capital of. The country is rich in Natural Resources about gold and iranian. And so man is the name of the biggest uranium. The french state owns
a sixty three percent stake. While the former colonial power and a tiny elite turn a healthy profit the ordinary population gains little or nothing from this wealth. Is the second poorest country in the world. In jazz not just rich in minerals and its also a magnet for migrants recently the e. U. Began paying the government to keep the migrants away on a large scale. In near may we go to a big conference about the Battle Against Illegal Migration and about beefing up the countrys security operations. Goes a my moon agassi who is the head of the migration of already said shes full of praise for the e. U. And germany. And europe after in normal europe is a great support to our government because they give us a lot of resources in germany for example is helping to build a border post so that the Security Forces have better control of the borders we
will do to get up or is different yet. Officially the number of migrants passing through nice air has been reduced by seventy percent in just two years. Two years ago namely the government and acted any law banning the transport of migrants and imposing a sentence of up to fairly years in jail or fine amounting to the equivalent of Four Thousand five hundred euros with the backing of the e. U. We made an appointment with the Defense Minister of malaysia tariq our key to emphasizes the importance of border security. But he says fifty percent of his country is hard to control desert. Assist solid is it to secure the desert we need more resources than a country like malaysia air might have at its disposal and. We need aircraft and equipment with state of the art technology. The monitor these arms the world music
the end thanks to our cooperation with the e. U. And especially with germany were doing much better in this Joint Project germany really is a leader who is you who we have proudly shown one document after another recording freshly signed deals between germany and. Germany is buying ingest Defense Ministry vehicles and Satellite Telephones officially for better Border Control another document suggests direct Financial Aid to the tune of millions of eras. Them a document has quickly taken away because its content is still a secret the Defense Ministry in berlin isnt giving away anything either they tell us details not be revealed. But wheres the money from the German Government going and what are the consequences of this time to put a security. We get agadez in such advances this desert says he was
a trade hub for centuries goods from all over west africa were taken from here across the desert to libya and algeria but the war in libya changed a lot i mean Business Model emerged a desk became a migration whop. Of Human Rights Activist russia says the government has badly neglected the region he says it makes him angry that theyre now getting money from the e. U. Russia color has already been jailed twice for criticizing your far she says. The government is characterized by corruption and violent abuse of power and Human Rights Violations by the. Occasional Sexual Partner europe our president is a Model Partner he does everything to please europe. Still agadez is now europes first external border. Rashid says europes external border begins here in the
heart of the city in one of the Transit Centers or europe talks the e. U. Including germany is already acting in a desperate. Its a camp for migrants picked up on their way to europe or brought here from living in prison accounts. That data is recorded in case they make it to europe after all. Or most of those here are sent home to their countries of origin. For the local man says the prospect of europe building Central Holding camps here is warren he says are going to as has become a bar a tree for testing in europe and Migration Policy you know murders a few of us in here in the uk i didnt work either so we did not ask them to set up Holding Camps like this here. This is going to create great difficulties no we have
no structures to deal with this and we have no schools no hospitals no Running Water and no electricity but now were supposed to do the work of foreign governments of the europeans are only interested in one thing all the fight against illegal migration they use the word illegal to justify their actions. The local population is increasingly resentful of european policy migrants used to be welcome here they ate here went shopping and stayed in hotels they put money into the local economy. And they got it there was nothing illegal about it here in the center of town we had lots of different little shops Restaurants Hotels and so on the migrants. I would think it was a hive of activity but now business is dead and i could as the economy that is in water. This has these military bases home to an accidental graveyard of sorts more than one hundred pickup trucks that used to ferry migrants across the desert are rusting away here. They tell my stories of people trying to get to a better life on the other side of the mediterranean. Nigeria all. The cars were confiscated by the city authorities they will never be given back says the soldier as a deterrent. Use of skull is there to be used to drive migrants across the desert it was illegal three years ago he borrowed money and bought a pickup. What simple i am for my i have not done im just what i think is something yes. I do like that. Yes twenty years fifty yes to get Seven Million to go back to scott wiser but if a dollar more the case of your. Money not just. Needed to do. Something like this difficult to. Fund it is a. Killing not to terrorism. But. Many people fear that this is the next challenge that radical islamists will find it easier to recruit people with no prospects. People with nothing to live. Be stopped by a Border Collar no matter what europe does to seal off the route through the desert. He says it just makes migrant sickening even more dangerous route. Was not what is going on in the desert right now you dont know i dont know the
international community doesnt know thats the problem before they all thorntons checked everyone passing the border post and they had an overview. Or to say allow the drivers with the migrants avoid the border pat was as they take different routes the more dangerous results. It could reveal quiets why nobody knows how many people died trying to cross the desert what. Sort. Its difficult for camera teams to. A we certainly knew today thirty would still be. This what. We want to take a look for at sounds of the route leading from agadez to libya. Its a centuries old truck it used to transport goods and people today its dangerous territory when bandits and islamist terrorists hold sway. We cannot go without an
armed escort. On the way we encounter Military Patrol on looking for traffickers and smugglers. Theyre not interested not spy. After three hours drive we reach the first checkpoint. Cameras are not welcome here. Everybody has to show their papers. The border guard says that people from Nigeria Liberia and senegal potential refugees wouldnt get through here without a visa. Never never never. No two years ago it was different this stuff that he thought for years ago the us the us yes no no i dont but. West africans can no longer pass through here without a visa despite being
a member of the Economic Community of west african states. And. Its the end of the road for us tonight. No cameras no witnesses to see what happens in the desert. The problem says rashid colo. He shows us photos he got from his contacts. Spotted the beloved bush look at these pictures the corpses are totally dried out the people died of thirst this man appears to have tried to take off his trousers in the throes of death they say that when a human being dies or every scrap of clothing feels like too much nobody knows whether these people died a few weeks or a few months ago. Those who drowned in the mediterranean might be seen says rashid
color. Those who die in the desert. After much negotiation we arrange a meeting with someone who can tell us more about the desert. We can only go at night hes afraid his whereabouts will be discovered. We meet in a socalled get out of a secret camp for migrants. As a trafficker. He still ferries migrants across the desert. Seafoods good to see it never stopped that. On the you used to see the migrants everywhere now we have to hide them from You Sanders Modern Secret The Migration continues. It has grown more dangerous but we used to stop at Watering Homes or in villages along the way women you know now the military is everywhere. So we stop
fifteen kilometers away from the village and hide the migrants then i drive into the village to buy food and drink and then i drive back on the bus or if you run into a Military Patrol and they ask you questions you get scared and dont come back for the migrants who are in the migrants are totally lost in the desert she prepared to ski. With no water and no food the most that mean certain death says build a cell phone a narrowly avoided death while trying to flee across the desert. Me in the immediate media unit on this and there was a Military Patrols over our driver saw it and threw us out. When the military got to us they said you are illegal we dont care about you and drove off after the truck i mean it it was only wandered around the desert for three days. To somebody beneath. This it was. The driver
many people fell ill. Children and two women died. They were eventually rescued by aid workers but despite it all all they wanted to try again. I think it was that it be the only thing they could stop us is if europe would stop funding our african dictators and military. If we africans were truly independent and could profit from our Natural Resources. But we and the african children get nothing of it. And as long as thats the way it is it will keep coming up to europe nothing to lose density google ads. But they says he sees migration as a form of resistance to turn justice and exploitation thank goal is written on the wall. Europe for nothing. Europe more nothing and there are a few legal punks to this call the only way left is across the desert on route made more dangerous by european policy. They say the desert is a graveyard a graveyard where the Data Mining Invisible long long. Long long. The fast pace of life in the digital shift has the lowdown on the web showing new developments and providing useful information the wittiest finds and interviews with makers and users. Should next on d w. Go into the new magazine appalling d. W