African migrants settle in Mali slums

Video: Return to nowhere

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 Migrants stay in squalor rather than return home 
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For many migrants trying to reach Europe, their journeys end well before they are able to leave Africa.

They get caught and deported, ending up in transit countries like Mauritania, Mali and Niger.

As Casey Kauffman reports from Mali, many prefer to stay back and tolerate the privation rather than return home in shame.

 
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