The NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Wednesday condemned “the inhuman treatment” inflicted on illegal immigrants of West African origin seeking to reach the European continent and who were deported Manu-militari from Algeria and Libya to the territory neighboring Nigerian.
“On average, regarding 2,000 migrants are expelled from Algeria and Libya every month, among whom there are serious injuries, women victims of rape, and people suffering from serious trauma, abandoned in the middle of the desert at the Algerian border. -nigerian”, specified this organization in a press release.
“Nearly 70% of migrants” taken care of upon their arrival in northern Niger, bordering Algeria and Libya, said they had suffered “violence and all kinds of degrading acts from the Algerian guards and Libyans,” said the NGO.
According to MSF, the number of illegal immigrants expelled from Algeria has been on the rise in recent years, recalling having identified 23,171 migrants expelled from this Maghreb country in 2020, 27,208 last year and 14,196 between January and May 2022.
“The observation of the state of physical and mental health in which they find themselves when they arrive in our health structures proves that these people have lived through hell during their expulsion from the Algerian and Libyan territories”, argued Jamal Mrrouch, Chief MSF mission in Niger who deplores this “humanitarian tragedy”.