Africa A Journey Through Hell
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English

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 14, 2012.

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Every year, thousands of people fleeing poverty in Ethiopia and Somalia hire smugglers to ferry them across the Gulf of Aden to look for work, but nearly half don't survive the three-day passage. Journalist Daniel Grandclément boarded a 30-foot boat with 120 refugees and shared their journey through hell - with the understanding that the smugglers would kill him if he pointed the lens in their direction - to learn more about the plight of these migrants. The trip is made without food or water, and with constant beatings by the smugglers, who sometimes simply toss people overboard to drown. The situation is so dire that international aid agencies are camped out on the Somali coast, offering to pay the refugees to go back home. Few take them up on their offer.

10 & up.

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