While media and political attention is often focused on migrants’ deaths trying to cross the strips of sea at Europe’s borders, there is much less awareness about what happens in transit countries such as Niger, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and others. A newly-published report by IOM, UNHCR and the Mixed Migration Centre describes an extremely grim situation for people on the move trying to reach Europe through the African continent. The report denounces the ‘unimaginable horrors’ experiences by refugees, including ‘death, SGBV, torture and physical violence, kidnapping for ransom, trafficking in per…