It really has to be the pits to want to be smuggled into Libya to get a job.
Smuggling people into the country thousands want to leave
By Edward LewisSiwa
The accidental shooting of eight Mexican tourists during a security operation in Egypt's Western Desert underlines the difficulty of preventing militants crossing over from lawless Libya. But people are also going in the other direction - penniless Egyptian migrants looking for work in Libya - and the smugglers who take them say they too risk being shot on sight.
Typical aerial images of Egypt are dominated by two contrasting colours: the green trail of the River Nile that snakes vertically from south to north and the vast swathes of yellow desert that make up more than 90% of the country's surface.
At first glance the green seems confined to the river banks and triangular Nile Delta but on closer inspection tiny flecks appear in Egypt's Western Desert forming a series of stepping stones across the Sahara - "islands of the blessed" as they were called in ancient times.
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Smuggling people into the country thousands want to leave - BBC News
Smuggling people into the country thousands want to leave
By Edward LewisSiwa
The accidental shooting of eight Mexican tourists during a security operation in Egypt's Western Desert underlines the difficulty of preventing militants crossing over from lawless Libya. But people are also going in the other direction - penniless Egyptian migrants looking for work in Libya - and the smugglers who take them say they too risk being shot on sight.
Typical aerial images of Egypt are dominated by two contrasting colours: the green trail of the River Nile that snakes vertically from south to north and the vast swathes of yellow desert that make up more than 90% of the country's surface.
At first glance the green seems confined to the river banks and triangular Nile Delta but on closer inspection tiny flecks appear in Egypt's Western Desert forming a series of stepping stones across the Sahara - "islands of the blessed" as they were called in ancient times.
Continue reading at:
Smuggling people into the country thousands want to leave - BBC News
