Increasing numbers of African immigrants are arriving in Latin America as European countries tighten border controls. They are escaping violence and civil war, and arriving on cargo ships or commercial planes. “One night I went to the seaport,” Sierra Leone immigrant Ibrahim Abdoul Rahman (pictured here selling jewelry in Buenos Aires) told Reuters news agency. “I was thinking I was going to Europe. Later I found out I was in Argentina.”
Africans Seek Asylum in Latin America
January 01, 2010