In sudan and khartum, you can find a smuggler. And so it tended o bein khartom that they would make deals with smugglers or in a close by an omderman. It's kind of like go now, pay later, scheme. They drive across the sahara desert which is incredibly dangerous tos like not enough water. If some one dies, they just throw the body off the jeep and keep driving. When they get to libya, then tat at that point they get locked in a warehouse. Most people i interviewed, they said they stayed there for around one year with the smugglers.
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