No safety in sanctuary


Yakoub showing a photo of him and other migrants on a small boat they took from Tobruk, Libya, to Crete Island. — Reuters

BAHR el-Din Yakoub fled Sudan after a missile tore through his home in Khartoum, killing four of his friends.

Hoping to find safety, he headed north to Egypt. But after a year of economic hardship, rising hostility and a crackdown on undocumented migrants, he gave up.

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