00:00This father is in anguish after his eldest son, Idrissa, left Guinea in search of a better future.
00:07In August last year, Abdul received a phone call saying his boat capsized off the coast of Morocco,
00:13leaving migrants on board to drown.
00:15But Idrissa's body has not yet been found.
00:19He said to me, Dad, life is hard. I'm the eldest in the family.
00:24So if we stay like this, how will my brothers live?
00:27I will do everything I can to find my son because he left to save us, but God did not will it.
00:38According to a local NGO, thousands of young migrants have gone missing,
00:42leaving their families helplessly searching for traces of their children.
00:46The problem is particularly acute in Guinea,
00:49which has become a major departure point for migrants heading to North Africa and Europe.
00:53According to the director of this Guinean NGO,
00:55out of every 100 migrants who leave, at least 10 will never be heard from again.
01:01In Guinea, based on estimates, there could be thousands of missing people,
01:06but it will simply take time to identify those families.
01:09According to the International Organization for Migration,
01:12over 33,000 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean,
01:16and over 17,000 have faced the same fate in Africa between 2014 and 2025.
01:21The Guinean Organization for the Fight Against Irregular Migration
01:26has set up WhatsApp groups to connect Guinean families.
01:29In the meantime, families continue to search for digital traces of their children
01:47by scouring social media for videos showing young people in morgues
01:50or corpses dredged out of shipwrecks.
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