Andre Chani, 44, a former migrant smuggler speaks as he sits with his children during an interview with Reuters at his house on the outskirts of Agadez, Niger October 28 2019. Picture taken October 28, 2019. REUTERS/ Zohra Bensemra
AGADEZ, Niger (Reuters) - Andre Chani said he once earned thousands of dollars a month driving Europe-bound migrants from Niger's desert trading hub of Agadez to Libya.
But in 2016, he said, police in Niger impounded his two white pick-up trucks as part of an effort to stem the flow of Africans onto European shores. So Chani, 44, applied for 2.5 million CFA francs ($4,511) in aid from a European Union (EU)-funded program to start trucking agricultural produce to neighbouring Algeria.
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