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 TOUIZGUE, Morocco (AP) - The 26-year-old Nigerian left his home in Casablanca one afternoon to buy sardines and orange juice for dinner. Police arrested him, seized his legal refugee papers and beat him, he says, displaying scratched and blackened wrists as proof of having been handcuffed.
Within 48 hours, he says, he and nine busloads of other Africans were dropped in the middle of the Sahara Desert, all left to suffer hunger and thirst — and some to die.
The Moroccan government denies claims from human rights groups that it has been dumping Africans in deserts, abandoning them there as a way of coping with an influx of thousands of refugees trying to reach Morocco's Spanish enclaves as a route to hoped-for prosperity in Europe.
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