In a heavily guarded prison in the city of Agadez, in the north of Niger, convicted people smuggler Sade Yaya* sits on a stool in the yard.For several years, he drove migrants through the desert from this region, usually to the Libyan border.The passage through the Agadez region once a thoroughfare for people migrating north to work in Libya or Algeria, or trying to make it to Europe was criminalised for most travellers in 2015 by an anti-people-smuggling law, brought in by Niger's government with the support of EU authorities.
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