NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger will repatriate its citizens living as illegal migrants in neighbouring Algeria, the justice minister announced on Sunday, as the government steps up efforts to combat trafficking networks.
In recent months, Niger says it has destroyed safe houses owned by traffickers in northern towns and turned back travellers without valid identity documents in an effort to stem the flow of African migrants across the Sahara and into North Africa and Europe.
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