Africa’s deadliest migration route

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Why would a migrant embark on a journey on Africa's deadliest migration route?A French-Cameroonian writer on trial in Paris for contesting the 1994 genocide in Rwanda-we find out whyAnd how excess salt in soil is affecting farming communities in AfricaPresenter :Charles Gitonga
Producers: Amie Liebowitz, Nyasha Michelle, Patricia Whitehorne, Yvette Twagiramariya and Susan Gachuhi
Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga. Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi are our editors. I'm Charles Gitonga. We'll talk again next time.
Technical producer: Chris Kouzaris
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

14 Oct 9AM English United Kingdom News

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