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Tunisian Authorities Raze Refugee Camps That Housed 7,000

HeadlineApr 25, 2025

Tunisian authorities on Thursday dismantled a makeshift camp in Sfax, a major transit hub for sub-Saharan African refugees. It was the second such destruction of refugee housing this month; together, the demolished camps once housed some 7,000 people. It’s part of a larger plan to expel undocumented sub-Saharan Africans from Tunisia, without offering any alternatives or basic rights. This is one of the displaced migrants.

Aykini: “When I came, I was in the city, but there are times when I want to come here to use it as a crossing point to Europe. Each time, there’s a dismantling of camps, and we have to change camps. These are the different difficulties we face here. When they come like that, they tear down all the houses, and everything you have, you lose it in the blink of an eye. And those are the different difficulties that we face now.”

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