MALI: Abdoulaye: "I only spent three weeks there before they sent me home again...but I'm going back"

GAO Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Abdoulaye (not his real name), 27, tried to illegally migrate from Mali to Spain a few months ago, but he was intercepted by the Spanish authorities in northern Morocco and sent home. Since then he has been living in Gao, the last big town in Mali before the Sahara crossing, trying to scrape together enough money to try again. “I left Gao for Spain. Crossing the desert took several weeks and was a terrible experience, but it’s worse when you get to Algeria....