article_snippet.sent: Malians have the added incentive of the recent conflict in which jihadist groups seized nearly half the country before French-led intervention pushed jihadist groups back.
article_snippet.sent: Joel Millman of the IOM says there's also been an increase in the number of Nigerian Christians following this route, escaping the chaos and brutality inflicted on the chaos and brutality inflicted on their towns and villages by Boko Haram towns and villages by Boko Haram.
article_snippet.sent: While still a small fraction of the overall migration, the number of Nigerian Christians smuggled for sexual exploitation in Europe rose threefold in 2014, Joel Millman of the IOM says.
article_snippet.sent: The recent murder of Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians by ISIS's Libyan affiliate may have hastened the departure of some.
article_snippet.sent: The arrival of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Libya has further complicated passage; in January jihadists killed 14 Libyan soldiers near Sabha.