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Algiers (EFE) .- Algeria expelled 391 people across its southern border and pushed them into the desert Niger under conditions precarious, reported today International Organization for Migration (IOM) agency related to the United Nations.
According to the source, the deportees of African descent were arrested by Algerian authorities in various cities of the country and taken into vehicles up to the southern border.
"Everyone arrived Friday in the Nigerian city of Amssaka after crossing the desert, most of them working irregularly in Algeria," he said.
"They were arrested in Algeria and taken by trucks to the border of In Guezzam, where they were forced to cross on foot, little water and food. has several children and some pregnant women, "he added.
The news of this new expulsion, unconfirmed or denied by the Algerian authorities, coincided today in Algiers with the sixth meeting of the Algerian bilateral border committee. and Niger, which was chaired by the interior ministers of both countries, Noureddin Bedoui and Mohamed Bazoum.
Addressing the local press at the inauguration, Bedaoui insisted that Algeria would not accept the opening of remand centers. On the other hand, Niger opened an office in the capital to collaborate with the IOM as part of a voluntary repatriation management program. Sub-Saharan migrants, mainly from Libya .
International Organizations for the Defense of the Right Human Rights like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch denounced, for their part, the "inhuman" treatment that the Algerian regime accords to thousands of men, women and migrant children, in their "Since January, Algeria has been deporting thousands of men, women and children to Niger and Mali in inhuman conditions, and in many cases regardless of their legal status in Algeria or the degree of individual vulnerability " HRW said in a statement
The organization also called on the Algerian government to put an end to arbitrary evictions and summaries, and called for the development of a system of legal and equitable distribution of irregular migrants.
In a report presented last February, Amnesty International noted that more than 6,500 immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been victims of arbitrary detention and forced eviction in 2017 in Arge.
Algerian Minister of the Interior, Noureddine Bedoui admitted in May the expulsion of some 27,000 migrants in the past three years, but claimed that it had been made "in strict respect of human rights", and accused NGOs of trying to "harm the image" of the country. EFE (I)
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