Sudan boosts border patrols to curb people smuggling
2,461 views · Published 13 June 2017 · 2:03 · Indexed 28 October 2026
Channel: AFP News Agency · 2017 · News & Politics
In a bid to flee Eritrea and later make it to Europe, a group of migrants were abducted by Sudanese Bedouin Rashaida tribesmen after they illegally crossed into east Sudan. Sudanese security forces, who have stepped up their patrols along the 600-kilometre (370-mile) frontier with Eritrea in a bid to curb migrant smuggling, freed the group.
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