Niger says it has intercepted over 500 Sahara migrants
 

Niger has stopped more than 500 would-be migrants trying to cross the Sahara into neighbouring Algeria in the past four months, the justice ministry said on Tuesday, as it *****s down on gangs ferrying people across the desert. Thirty nine people including 29 women have been detained on charges of human trafficking in the **rthern uranium mining town of Arlit, which justice minister and government spokesman Marou Amadou visited last week, the ministry said in a statement. Niger sits at a crossroads of migrant routes linking **rth Africa to the rest of the continent. Most of the migrants heading to Algeria are women and children from Niger's remote southeast who are sent to beg outside mosques in Algeria.

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