In Tunisia, asylum seekers, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, forced to live in makeshift tent camps are languishing under a sweltering heat wave with temperatures reaching 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Meanwhile, dozens of migrants who were rounded up by Tunisian authorities and stranded in a desolate militarized area in the Tunisian border with Libya have described harrowing conditions in the heat wave. Many have been stuck there for at least two weeks without any food, fresh drinking water or shelter from the rising temperatures. This is an asylum seeker from Nigeria.

Asylum seeker: “No food, no water. They materialize us here. They brutalize us. There are snakes here. Nowhere to sleep, nothing to eat. We are begging on the U.N. to please come to our aid. We are suffering here brutally. Look at how our skin have been infected. No treatment, no food. They have been treating us maliciously, which is very wrong.”