A friend showed Pato, a migrant from Cameroon, a picture from the internet of two bodies huddled together on the desert sand. The three had become separated on a trek through the desert between Tunisia and Libya on a day in mid-July that changed Pato’s life forever. They were sent back into the searing heat of the Libyan desert and later re-entered Tunisia by night without even realising they had done so. Pato, Fati and Marie hadn’t had water for 24 hours when they came across a woman and asked for some. “They threatened us with guns.”– The weight of grief –In the desert, Pato found he had reached his limit.

Source: Libya Today August 06, 2023 07:01 UTC