African arrivals tricked to believe they were headed for U.S. or Europe
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https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/desperate-to-flee-africa-migrants-accidentally-stow-away-on-ships-to-brazil-f1b5fd53 John Ekow, a refugee from Ghana, boarded a container ship he believed was heading to the U.S., only to arrive in Brazil.SÃO PAULO—As Ghanaian stowaway John Ekow clung to the rudder of a container ship in the middle of the Atlantic, drinking his own urine to survive, there was one thing that kept him going: the prospect of making landfall in the U.S.
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