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Thousands of migrants deported from Algeria and abandoned in the desert in Niger require immediate protection.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has strongly criticized the treatment of refugees and migrants in the border region of Niger, Algeria and Libya. With thousands of migrants being forcefully deported to Niger's Sahel region each year, the aid organization blamed the EU for its&#...

From January to May 2022, 14,196 migrant people were expelled from Algeria, and abandoned in the middle of the desert at the Algerian-Nigerian border, in the so-called “Zero Point” area 15 km from the town of Assamaka, according to MSF. Among the 2,000 people deported each month from Algeria and…

Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday denounced the inhumane treatment of West African migrants turned back from Algeria and Libya to neighbouring Niger as they try to reach Europe.

From January to May 2022 alone, 14,196 migrants have been expelled from Algeria to Niger, including 6,749 non-Nigeriens. They were mostly men, but also included 139 women and 30 children.

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InfoMigrants By InfoMigrants Published on : 2021/04/23 Since the beginning of the year, more than 4,000 people have been taken by the Algerian police to the border with Niger, to a place in the middle of the desert nicknamed "point zero". Abandoned there, some get lost and are never found. In a new report, MSF denounces these illegal deportations that continue despite border closure. "The Algerian gendarmes broke down the door. They to...

Niger: Deportations put migrants’ lives at risk Format Safi Keita left Mali for Algeria to make a living selling spices. Her two children had stayed behind with her mother, and she was four months pregnant with her third child on the day that Algerian police arrived at her home. "The [police officers] broke down the door,” she said. “They took everything: money and phones. Then they took me to the police station.” The following day, Keita was put in a truck and taken to a detention cent...