No, the headline doesn’t mean of course that she is now trying to rough up vast swathes of Africa so they (the Africans) will leave their respective countries. In fact, Merkel is trying to ensure that these traffickers have chances so they will leave their despicable jobs. ‘They act like this because they have no perspectives and (thus we need to provide) new lucrative forms of income (to the traffickers).’
The interview was published as a podcast.
‘Foreign aid plays an important role as well as border enforcement and control expertise in Niger.’
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Refugee Org workers had reported on persecution by Niger-troops directed at traffickers.