National Geographic UK - July 2019

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Young men from Niger and elsewhere wait in a migrant “ghetto” in Agadez, Niger, for a caravan to Libya. With low life expectancy ...

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A truckload of clothes, furniture, appliances, and various other household items arrives at customs in Agadez. Nigeriens working ...

Passengers pile in, as many as 25 per vehicle, each carrying no more than a knapsack. They wear sunglasses and scarves to fend o ...

large, imposing figure. With an undomesticated beard and a toothpick wedged between his lips, he considers the melee with an inc ...

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Maiduguri Ménaka Ngaoundéré Ghat Kandi I-n-Amguel Gusau Tamanrasset Jos Niamey Mao Birnin Konni Djado Séguédine Madama Arlit Dir ...

Agadez has long been a crossroads of trade, connecting the Sahel to North Africa and West Africa to the Middle East. The city’s ...

caters to a mainstay of the area’s economy. The historic city center (bottom middle) is built of mud brick and dates to the 15th ...

Ezekiel. Tala. Cherif Kante. May God help us all. Two brothers from a Burkina Faso village, skinny but with impeccable teeth, im ...

adults in their dazzling wardrobes. The agrarian village’s population, about 2,300, has roughly doubled in less than 20 years. W ...

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Hundreds of shafts line a gold mine in north- ern Niger on the border with Algeria. Teams turn cranks to lower miners more than ...

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Buyers choose animals at the livestock mar- ket and send them to this slaughterhouse in Agadez, where camels, goats, sheep, and ...

obvious risks, attested to by the October 2017 ambush. (No incidents of U.S. troops drawing fire have been reported in the past ...

a mine collapsed. “Both jobs are risky,” he says. “But,” he muses, “if someone calls me from the city, saying, ‘I’ve got 50 migr ...

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In Agadez, an Izala school educates about 1,300 students. Izala is a back-to-basics Islamic reformist move- ment that adheres to ...