AlarmePhone Sahara condemns deportation violence at Niger-Algerian border

AlarmePhone Sahara (APS) has condemned deportation violence at the Niger-Algerian border and other places.

The organisation decried deportation violence in its recent release titled ‘Deportations from Algeria to #Niger – July 2024’.

The release reads in full:

Deportations from #Algeria also took place in July – both official and unofficial. The APS team in #Assamaka also met people who arrived at the “point zéro” in the middle of the desert, some of whom were wounded, as well as peoplewho were deported from Algeria to Assamaka in buses. In total, at least 1,805 people arrived from Algeria in July 2024.

Specifically, two unofficial deportation convoys arrived on 08/07/24 at the “point zéro” in the middle of the desert and 15km from the Nigerien border town
of Assamaka. Initially 192 people with the following nationalities:
Senegal: 10
Mali: 28
G/Conakry: 64
Sierra Léone: 16
Liberia: 1
Gambie: 2
Burkina Faso: 16
RCI: 13
Togo: 1
Benin: 14
Nigeria: 3
Cameroun: 24

A second deportation convoy arrived on the same day with 227 people at “Point Zero” without any further details about the people concerned.

Similarly, a so-called official convoy with 564 Nigerien citizens (women, children & men) arrived directly in Assamaka on 8 July.

10 and 12 days later, the APS team in Assamaka reported another convoi inofficiel: 158 people were again deported into the middle of the Nigerien desert on 18/07/24. On 20/07/24, a further 27 deportees arrived at the Algerian-Nigerian border.
On 20 July, an official convoy with 467 Nigerians arrived in Tamanrasset as far as Assamaka. The pictures show the official convoy consisting of the l’enceinte du commissariat.

Finally, an unofficial deportation convoy reached Nigerien territory on 24/07/24 with 170 people of different nationalities:
Mali: 47
G/Conakry:43
Cameroun: 22
Burkina Faso: 12
Benin: 1
Senegal: 3
Sierra Leone: 9
Nigéria: 7
G/Bissau: 2
Tchad: 1
RCI: 18
Gambie: 4
Ghana: 3
Togo: 1

Another deportation convoy arrived in Assamaka on 28/07/24, but we do not yet have the details.

We are concerned and angry about the deportation violence and condemn it – at the Niger-Algerian border and elsewhere! STOP DEPORTATION!