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W African migrants risk lives

Migrants from West Africa are taking increasingly desperate measures to try to get into Europe. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Tenerife says people are arriving there in very bad condition after long boat journeys from Africa. Austin Taylor, of the ICRC emergency centre in Tenerife, discusses the findings.

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