ENVIRONMENT AND THE WORLD ECONOMY: Room for one more on top? How to get a seat in rush hour ENVIRONMENT AND THE WORLD ECONOMY: Room for one more on top? How to get a seat in rush hour

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Room for one more on top? How to get a seat in rush hour

Room for one more at the back?

Only if you can push your way into the throng of 100 or so workers on a journey home from work which makes commuting on Britain's much-maligned transport network seem like luxury.

Shoehorned onto the back of a lorry, they are crossing the Sahara Desert in temperatures of up to 35c in the shade. The hellish trip can last two to three weeks.
This is the way an army of migrant workers from some of Africa's poorest states get home from oil-rich Libya.

The lorries follow ancient spice caravan routes over hundreds of miles to Niger and Mali, braving dust storms and giant potholes.

The workers, who do menial jobs shunned by Libyans, have some time with their families - then their desert commute starts all over again. (Daily Mail)

Labels:

United States, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, India, Virgin Islands, U.S., Germany, Bolivia, Netherlands, France, Israel, Spain, Panama, Chile, Bahamas, Argentina, Dominica, Belgium, Ireland, Belize, Brazil, South Africa, Seychelles, Tanzania, United Republic of, Egypt, Rwanda, Algeria, Swaziland, Ghana, Cameroon, Madagascar, Kenya, Angola, Namibia, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire, Gabon, Mauritius, Togo, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Botswana, Liberia, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the, Benin, Tunisia, Japan, Australia, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Korea, Republic of, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Brunei Darussalam, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Czech Republic, Russian Federation, Cyprus, Norway, Austria, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Denmark, Portugal, Turkey, Georgia, Belarus, Iraq, Armenia, Lebanon, Moldova, Republic of, Bulgaria, Finland, Oman, Latvia, Kazakstan, Estonia, Slovakia, Jordan, Hungary, Kuwait, Albania, Lithuania, San Marino, Bhutan, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Costa Rica, Macedonia, Malta, Gambia, Malawi, Slovenia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Azerbaijan, Monaco, Haiti, Guam, Jamaica, Micronesia, Federated States of, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Yemen, Virgin Islands, British, Saint Lucia, Syrian Arab Republic, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Netherlands Antilles, Guatemala, Venezuela, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Uruguay, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, Trinidad and Tobago, Sri Lanka, Marshall Islands, Bahrain, Cook Islands, Gibraltar, Paraguay, Antigua and Barbuda, Lesotho, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Palau, Qatar, Cambodia, Anguilla, American Samoa, Turks and Caicos Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Uzbekistan, Macao, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Guyana, Cuba, Congo, Barbados, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Suriname, Aruba, Fiji, Montserrat, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Chad, Faroe Islands, Somalia, Mali, Burundi, Guinea, Ethiopia, Comoros, Mauritania, Martinique, Niger, Holy See (Vatican City State), Turkmenistan, Mayotte, Burkina Faso, Andorra, Antarctica, Greenland, Wallis and Futuna, Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, French Polynesia, Maldives, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, French Guiana, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Tonga, Niue, Tokelau, Nauru, Norfolk Island, Myanmar, Korea.