{"id":236065,"date":"2026-06-12T05:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-we-drank-our-urine-to-survive-libya-returnee-recounts-desert-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:04:17","slug":"nigeria-we-drank-our-urine-to-survive-libya-returnee-recounts-desert-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-we-drank-our-urine-to-survive-libya-returnee-recounts-desert-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: We Drank Our Urine to Survive &#8211; Libya Returnee Recounts Desert Ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">A 23-year-old female Libya returnee, Endurance Daniel, on Wednesday recounted how she and other migrants drank their urine to survive due to lack of water in the desert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Daniel, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) upon return to Nigeria, said she travelled with 52 other migrants in a single vehicle, out of whom she said seven people died under harsh conditions during the journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">She recounted how she was deceived into travelling to Libya at age 17, after promises of employment&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606110052.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old female Libya returnee, Endurance Daniel, on Wednesday recounted how she and other migrants drank their urine to survive due to lack of water in the desert. Daniel, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) upon return to Nigeria, said she travelled with 52 other migrants in a single vehicle, out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00491296:cad1017d30c923eb050d27a60066a76e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,10117,54599,4711,892,257,4687,15112,7218,20121,254,11667,23182],"class_list":["post-236065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-desert","tag-drank","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-ordeal","tag-recounts","tag-returnee","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survive","tag-urine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00491296:cad1017d30c923eb050d27a60066a76e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}