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Migrant returnees to Guinea describe ordeals faced

Tens of thousands of Africans are back home with help from the International Organization for Migration’s voluntary return programme.

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00:00Tens of thousands of Africans are back home with help from the International Organization for Migration's Voluntary Return Program.
00:07But with few prospects in Guinea and his dreams of being a European soccer star dashed, this young man feels abandoned.
00:16I went to declare that my IOM liaison isn't taking my calls. They called him and put us in contact.
00:21I spoke to him. Well, the words he said to me, he said not to call him anymore like this, and then that he will call me.
00:28From that moment until right now, he's not called me.
00:33The European Union-funded program pays for return flights and promises follow-up assistance.
00:38But this returnee says he's not received the medical care he was told he would get.
00:44If you see the young people driving motorcycle taxis here, college graduates, college graduates driving motorcycle taxis,
00:52It's because if there was, how do you say, work opportunities in the country, everyone would do it.
01:00The IOM says it is helping, including with vocational training and job placement, but no one seems to have got any support.
01:06This former migrant helps Guineans reintegrate into society.
01:09We aren't helping them so that they can stay.
01:16We're helping them so that they can take control of their lives again.
01:20The question of travel, migration, is a natural thing.
01:24Blocking a person is like blocking the tide.
01:26When you block water, the water will find its way.
01:31With young people looking for any chance of finding a better future for themselves,
01:35it's difficult to know where the truth lies.
01:39Yes, they do express a willingness to be sent back to a country
01:44where they might face less discrimination, less human rights violations,
01:49and might have more opportunities.
01:53But is it voluntary?
01:55Is it what they had in mind two years ago?
01:58Is that part of their plan?
02:00You know, so the voluntary element is people have been pushed somehow to want to go back
02:08because they're desperate.
02:10The IOM says over 90,000 voluntary returnees started and 60,000 completed
02:15the reintegration process, which they say is tailored to individual needs.
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