Tunisia Burns Migrant Tents In Latest Clearance Effort: AFP

Tunisian Authorities Raze Refugee Camps That Housed 7,000

Tunisian authorities on Thursday dismantled a makeshift camp in Sfax, a major transit hub for sub-Saharan African refugees. It was the second such destruction of refugee housing this month; together, the demolished camps once housed some 7,000 people. It’s part of a larger plan to expel undocumented sub-Saharan Africans from Tunisia, without offering any alternatives or basic rights. This is one of the displaced migrants. Aykini: “When I came, I…

The Tunisian authorities once again dismantled on Thursday makeshift camps of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, settled in olive groves in the east-central part of the country, against the background of accelerating "voluntary" returns of migrants to their countries.

Tunisia burns sub-Saharan African migrant tents in latest clearance

EL AMRA: Tunisian authorities on Thursday set fire to tents housing sub-Saharan African migrants, an AFP correspondent said, in a new drive to clear their informal camps. Many migrants arrived in Tunisia after crossing the deserts of Algeria and Mali, hoping to reach Italy. But tighter controls on the sea route have left them stranded. For nearly two years, olive groves around

Tunisia Burns Migrant Tents In Latest Clearance Effort: AFP

Tunisian authorities on Thursday set fire to tents housing sub-Saharan African migrants, an AFP correspondent said, in a new drive to clear their informal camps.

Tunisia burns migrant tents in latest clearance effort: AFP

Tunisian authorities on Thursday set fire to tents housing sub-Saharan African migrants, an AFP correspondent said, in a new drive to clear their informal camps.Many migrants arrived in Tunisia after crossing the deserts of Algeria and Mali, hoping to reach Italy. But tighter controls on the sea route have left them stranded.For nearly two years, olive groves around El Amra, a town near the city of Sfax, served as informal camps for thousands of…

Tunisian security forces launched a new campaign this Thursday morning to remove makeshift tents of migrants in the olive groves of the Amra delegation in the state of