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Resource November 7, 2017

Meet the Journalist: Ty McCormick

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Mali Niger
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Europe Slams Its Gates

A series on Europe’s controversial "pay-to-stay" effort to fight migration at its source.

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Ty McCormick speaks with migrants in a so-called migrant 'ghetto' in Agadez. Image by -- Niger, 2017.
Detainees from West Africa peer out of their overcrowded cell in the al-Nasr detention center in Zawiya, Libya, where migrants intercepted by the Coast Guard in Zawiya are warehoused indefinitely. Image by Peter Tinti. Libya, 2017.

Pulitzer Center grantee Ty McCormick traveled to Niger and Mali to report on the unintended consequences of EU efforts to halt migration from Africa. Here he discusses Foreign Policy's five-part series, "Europe Slams Its Gates: Imperiling Africa–and Its Own Soul."

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