An IOM community mobilizer from Dirkou, Niger, who was part of a joint Search and Rescue mission with Niger's authorities into the remote reaches of the Sahara desert north of Agadez, helps some of the 83 abandoned migrants to board vehicles taking them to safety on September 3, 2020, according to IOM, in this picture released on September 8, 2020. IOM/UN Migration/Handout via REUTERS
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 80 African migrants have been rescued from the Sahara desert after they were robbed and left to die by people they had paid to smuggle them to Libya, the U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday, citing survivors.
Drivers abandoned four trucks carrying the migrants from Nigeria, Togo, Mali and Ghana with no food or water about 230 km (143 miles) north of the Sahara crossroad town of Niger's Dirkou after spotting military vehicles.
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