Synopsis
Benjamin Zand investigates the African migrant trade and reveals the extraordinary scale of people-smuggling across sub-Saharan Africa.
- Programme: Panorama
- Episode: Africa's Billion Pound Migrant Trail
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Geography | Migration and Refugee Crises
Licence: ERA Licence required
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