Agadez. Ancient caravan crossroads and modern-day migrant hub

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Old town Agadez

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A convoy gets ready to cross the desert.

Migrants and gold miners heading into the Sahara wait for the convoy to be prepared for departure.

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Old town Agadez

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Tuareg and Hausa traders at the camel market

Trans-Saharan patrols and migration.

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Migrants returned from Lybia at a transit house in Agadez.

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Large houses in "Misrata" neighbourhood, Agadez, the district where former passeurs -transporters of passengers- lived in during the golden era of trans-Saharan transport of migrants. This activity has been declared ilegal and it is now considered human trafficking.

Prisoners at a trial for human trafficking in Agadez.

Heading north, accross the Sahara.