Synopsis

Panorama examines the African migrant trade, exposing the immense scale of human smuggling across sub-Saharan Africa—a multibillion-pound industry some have labeled a modern-day slave trade. While the EU struggles to reduce the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean, reporter Benjamin Zand investigates how hundreds of millions of euros in EU funding are being utilized, questioning whether these efforts to combat smugglers may inadvertently be placing some migrants in increasingly perilous sit