Graft stalls Niger's bid to end migrant route to Europe

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* Record migrant numbers headed for Europe worries Niger * Police extract bribes from migrants, smugglers * Agadez seen as an 'El Dorado' for corrupt security forces * Authorities promise zero tolerance for graft under new law By Daniel Flynn AGADEZ, Niger, June 19 (Reuters) - In the desert town of Agadez in central Niger, almost anyone can tell you where to find the smugglers' compounds concealing African migrants headed for Europe and when the weekly convoy departs across the Sahara. At a checkpoint on the outskirts of town, police ******rs turned a blind eye as dozens of smuggler's trucks packed with migrants drove past at nightfall on a regular Monday convoy, starting a three-day drive across the desert to Libya.

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