Niger Junta Repeals Law Aimed at Slowing Migration to Europe 

FILE - Nigeriens and third-country migrants head toward Libya from Agadez, Niger, June 4, 2018. Niger's junta has revoked a 2015 anti-migration law that had helped reduce the flow of West Africans to Europe.

Niger's junta said Monday that it had revoked an anti-migration law that helped reduce the flow of West Africans to Europe, but that was reviled by desert dwellers whose economies had long relied on the traffic.