The trip could have killed them. But people fleeing economic wreckage in the Middle East say they'd do it 100 times over
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Across the Middle East and North Africa, talk of emigration is rampant. Though guns have largely fallen silent in most of the region's conflict zones, much of the misery has not let up.
Metal rods tower above the people to prop up a giant zinc roof. Azhi, who has splints on his legs, is smiling and wide-eyed. It's hard to tell that just days before, the boy's family faced the specter of death.
"We want to go to Germany so Azhi can get an operation," says his mother, 28-year old Shoxan Hussein. "The doctors said he needs to get it done before he turns five."
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