The bodies of four children have been found washed ashore west of Tripoli. Aid workers say they were on a migrant boat that sank on the high sea on Wednesday. The bodies of four children aged between five and 10 were discovered by rescue workers on the seashore west of the Libyan capital Tripoli…
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The arrests, including “a large number” of women with their babies, were made on Monday, December 7, after the officers intercepted the Senegalese migrants who had entered the country illegally and were planning to travel to Spain…
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Tags : Mauritania, migrants, Canary Islands,
Morroco’s coastguard said that it intercepted 231 migrants at sea earlier in the week. They were reportedly all coming from sub-Saharan Africa. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency quoted Morocco’s official MAP news agency as saying that the migrants traveling in kayaks and other small boats had been intercepted and taken to safety on Tuesday. Some had to be given first aid, according to military sources that were cited in the original report. Morocco has repeatedly intercepted irregular migrants headed for Europe in recent months.
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A migrant worker was burned to death in the Libyan capital, U.N. and government officials said Wednesday, the latest in abuses that migrants and refuges face in the conflict-stricken country. The interior ministry of the U.N.-supported government said three Libyans on Tuesday…
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Tags : Libya, migrants, nigerians,
Forty people are feared dead after a migrant vessel capsized off the coast of Mauritania, in a fresh tragedy along the Atlantic migration route to Europe. One person from the West African state of Guinea had survived, the UN refugee agency’s …
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A boat carrying around 40 migrants and refugees capsized off the coast of Mauritania, leaving only one survivor, a United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) spokesman said on Thursday. “Tragic news coming in of a shipwreck off the coast of Mauritania. Some 40 people were reportedly…
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Les marocains n’hésitent pas à exprimer leur condamnation de la mort de George Floyd aux États-Unis, alors qu’au Maroc les africains sont victimes des pires des supplices. A titre d’exemple, Toussaint-Alex Mianzoukouta, mort le 30/7/2013 à Oujda après avoir été éjecté en pleine course d’une fourgonnette de police.
Il avait une carte de séjour marocaine, et enseignait le français dans une école privée à Rabat. Marié et père d’un enfant, âgé de 39 ans, il s’était rendu à Tanger le 24 juillet. Il fût pris dans une rafle de police visant les subsahariens en situation irrégulière.
Avec d’autres subsahariens, il fût embarqué dans une fourgonnette les menant vers la frontière maroco-algérienne où, selon une pratique récurrente, ils allaient lâchés en plein désert, à bonne distance de toute vie humaine, en espérant leur disparition physique.
Les subsahariens dans la fourgonnette protestèrent contre le traitement inhumain qui les attendait. Un tumulte s’ensuivit, auquel Toussaint-Alex ne prit pas part. Un policier, assis en face de lui et furieux de la révolte des prisonniers, décida de se venger.
Il prit Toussaint-Alex, ouvrit la porte de la fourgonnette et l’éjecta de force sur la toute alors que le véhicule roulait à pleine vitesse. Il fallut une révolte des autres prisonniers pour que les policiers acceptèrent de ramasser le corps de Toussaint-Alex.
Il mourut dans un hôpital à Oujda après six jours d’agonie. Durant son arrestation, il avait tenter de montrer sa carte de séjour aux policiers pour prouver son statut légal sur le territoire marocain, sans le moindre succès. Mort pour rien, sinon sa peau noire.
Ces faits n’ont pas eu à Minneapolis, ni en banlieue parisienne, mais bel et bien au Maroc, le pays qui prétend défendre les intérêts des africains alors qu’il s’est érigé en gendarme de l’Europe en áfrique profitant du silence complice des régimes de la Françafrique au Sénégal, en Côte d’Ivoire, au Mali, au Niger, au Burkina Faso…
Tags : Maroc, Afrique, subsahariens, migrants, racisme, discrimination,
The GNA interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday that 26 Bangladeshi and four African migrants had been killed in the town of Mizda and that 11 injured survivors were taken to a hospital in Zintan, Reuters reported. “We have just learned of this tragedy and are following up to get…
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In February 2020, the Libya-Italy Memorandum of Understanding on Migration (LIMUM) was extended for another three years. LIMUM provides Italian support to Libyan maritime authorities to stop vessels and return asylum-seekers to detention camps in Libya—a flagrant violation…
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday that 53% of migrants in Tunisia lost their jobs during the lockdown period decreed by the authorities in order to contain the spread of COVID-19. Attempts to leave the country…
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