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Tunisia's Migrant Camps Dismantled Amid Rising Tensions

4/5/2025

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Tunisian authorities have forcibly dismantled camps sheltering 7,000 sub-Saharan African migrants, igniting a wave of deportations during a growing migrant crisis. Amidst rising tensions, some migrants faced arrest for violence, while local human rights groups decried the government's actions and racist rhetoric. President Kais Saied's claims about illegal migration's threat to Tunisia's demographics have drawn sharp rebuke from the African Union.

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Tunisian authorities have forcibly dismantled camps sheltering 7,000 sub-Saharan African migrants, igniting a wave of deportations during a growing migrant crisis. Amidst rising tensions, some migrants faced arrest for violence, while local human rights groups decried the government's actions and racist rhetoric. President Kais Saied's claims about illegal migration's threat to Tunisia's demographics have drawn sharp rebuke from the African Union.