"I would not do it again!" Muhammed "Lexy" Sanneh
"I would not do it again!" Many people would do almost anything for $1 million. "You could give me $1million and I would not do it again," 22 year-old Muhammed "Lexy" Sanneh told London-based journalist Ismail Einashe recently. What would he not do again? Take a nine-month journey from Basse, a northern town in The Gambia (the smallest country) in West Africa, through the desert of North Africa to Libya "which was mired in civil war". There he "witnessed horrific beatings of migrants by trafficers." He was an orphan, just 16 years old at the time. "The torturous sea crossing still haunts him - the small dinghy....with terrified, vomiting people for hours spent in the middle of an expanse of rough water" is something he cannot forget. But Muhammed "Lexy" Sanneh was fortunate. ...