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Several NGOs from Algeria, Arab world, Europe, and Africa have called on the Algerian authorities to stop alarming arbitrary mass expulsions of sub-Saharan migrants and violation of their basic human rights. Following the deterioration of relations between Algeria and sub-Saharan African migrants have become the target of widespread racist and incitement campaigns in Algeria, said […]
The Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH) has expressed grave concern over the worsening conditions of sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia, highlighting the growing violence and human rights violations they face. In a statement released few days ago, the League described these migrants as victims of attacks and rights abuses, living in increasingly precarious conditions that threaten […]
Tunisia has been mistreating migrants subjecting them to refoulement, as authorities continue to round up and throw migrants in Libya where they risk torture, Reuters reported citing an unpublished UN document. Tunisian authorities have been expelling African migrants to Libya, “where they have faced forced labor, extortion, torture and killing”, Reuters said citing a confidential […]
Niger government summoned Algeria’s ambassador to protest against the violent treatment suffered by Nigerien migrants who have been suffering rights breaches in southern Algeria. The showdown is the latest in a series of events that drew the two countries apart, starting from the refusal of Niger’s new leadership of an Algerian mediation in the country. […]
Tunisian civil society organizations have sounded the alarm about the precarious situation of Sub-Saharan migrants in Sfax, in southeastern Tunisia, calling for urgent intervention to assist this vulnerable group. Approximately 500 migrants, including women and children, have gathered at Beb Jebli, the central square of the city of Sfax, amid a rise in violence against […]
A year ago, a group of illegal sub-Saharan migrants attempted to storm the occupied enclave of Melilia by scaling the metal fence separating the occupied enclave from Nador. Here follows the timeline of the events of this migratory precedent: June 24, 2022 – Early in the morning, a group of sub-Saharan illegal immigrants launched an […]
The bodies of nine migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were discovered recently in Tunisia on the Algerian border, judicial sources said this Wednesday, quoting a Tunisian NGO. According to the NGO, the migrants “died of thirst and cold”. The bodies were found recently in a mountainous area near Haïdra, in central-western Tunisia, not far from the […]
The African Union (AU) has postponed sine die the “Pan African Network Conference on Fighting IFFs in Africa”, a continental conference initially scheduled in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, on March 15 to 17. The AU did not provide reasons for the postponement, but the move comes amid soar relations between Tunisian authorities and Addis Ababa […]
Tunisia’s authoritarian president Kais Saied is pushing conspiracy theories to the limit. After accusing the West of trying to undermine Tunisia’s sovereignty amid an uphill battle to gain a new IMF credit line, he now changed targets to scapegoat poor Sub-Saharan migrants uttering comments that verge on abject racism. “The undeclared goal of the successive […]
Over twenty Tunisian and international organizations active in Tunisia, on Thursday, decried in a joint statement the human rights violations suffered by migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, and called on the Tunisian authorities to combat hate speech, discrimination and racism against them and to take urgent action to guarantee the migrants’ dignity and rights. The signatories […]