Amnesty International urged Algeria to adopt a law on asylum and fight against the prevailing racism against Sub-Saharans, after several Algerian officials uttered racist statements against Sub-Saharans coupled with mass summary deportations of several African migrants, including asylum seekers. “The authorities should decriminalize irregular immigration,” Amnesty’s Algeria office said in a statement on Sunday. The […]
Two police officers were killed early Monday at a checkpoint in Tamou, in Tillaberi region, South-East of Niger. Unidentified armed men walked up to the checkpoint where the officers were posted early in the morning and shot them, Actu Niger reports citing witnesses of the attack. The armed men reportedly hid their motorbikes in the […]
Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is vowing a new hardline stance on migration, on Monday used his first foreign visit to Libya to demand an asylum reception centre in the North African nation to cut the flow of migrants into Europe. Salvini called for migrant centres to be set up in Africa as Rome […]
