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Laula held her daughter’s hand tightly as, speaking through an interpreter, she told me: ‘We have travelled for three months — by lorry, boat, bus and train — to get here. It took four days to cross the Sahara in a truck to reach Libya Laula’s family had paid an agent in Eritrea to get them across the Sahara and then another people-trafficking fixer to obtain two places on a boat from Libya to Italy. They are likely to have to find more money to pay a third agent to help mother and daughter make the final stage of their journey to England — illegally in the back of a lorry. Laula and Kidan are typical of the hundreds of thousands of people who form the gigantic diaspora from the remotest parts of Africa to Europe. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2720370/As-Eritreans-Sudanese-riot-Calais-best-spot-jump-lorries-bound-Britain-one-mother-little-daughter-says-Nothing-stop-getting-schools-hospitals.html#ixzz3BjTIHGGV Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:43:51 +0000

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