The Nigerien city of Agadez had been counting on foreign aid to compensate. It didn’t.
AGADEZ, Niger — During the heyday of European-bound migration, this city built amid the sands of the Sahara Desert was booming, with shop owners who catered to the travelers making healthy profits and the men who drove busloads of them north earning a comfortable living.
“It is an offer that you can’t refuse,” she said, adding, “Even if there isn’t anything explicit that says, ‘If you don’t do this, you won’t get development aid,’ it’s clear that it doesn’t look good for you to say no.”Once the law began to be enforced, in about 2017, people in Agadez said they watched the local economy crater.
“My kids need clothes for school — I can’t find a way to buy them,” said Souley Iddi, who makes a fraction of what he once did selling jerrycans, used to haul water. “Everything has been reduced, even food, what money I gave my family. It’s all more difficult now.”In a spartan concrete room at Agadez’s bus and car depot, a group of former smugglers sit around, with little else to do besides sip tea from a kettle brewing over open coals.
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