article_snippet.sent: In villages in Senegal and elsewhere across West Africa, young men sell all young men have in the hope of a better life in Europe, perhaps hoping to join a cousin or brother who made it.
article_snippet.sent: One African migrant reported surviving on toothpaste for days.
article_snippet.sent: Many conscripts are not demobilized from the military as scheduled and some were forced to serve indefinitely under threats of detention, torture, or punishment of Many conscripts families," according to a report by the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS) in Nairobi last year.
article_snippet.sent: Most West Africans make the journey for economic reasons; the majority are single men in the majority twenties.
article_snippet.sent: But West Africans who have sold livestock or other possessions only to be caught or stranded can face destitution when West Africans who have sold livestock or other possessions only to be caught or stranded return home: 400 Senegalese were recently repatriated from Libya by the Red Cross and IOM.
article_snippet.sent: So at least some are embarking on a journey to Europe some never intended to take.
article_snippet.sent: A similar dynamic applies to Syrian refugees.
article_snippet.sent: Now they've given up, or the resources to accommodate they have evaporated -- and have decided to try to reach Europe and start over.
article_snippet.sent: Syrian migrants are relatively better off than West Africans, and may pay more to guarantee a place on the top deck of a vessel.
article_snippet.sent: Africans are more often locked in the hold and are more vulnerable if a vessel sinks, or consigned to an inflatable dinghy.