Libya InfoMigrants, ’Libye : plus de 300 Subsahariens bénéficient d’un retour volontaire vers le Tchad et le Mali depuis la ville de Sebha’, 30 May 2025
The IOM organised two ’voluntary return’ flights from the town of Sebha in Libya on 26 and 28 May 2025 to Mali and Chad, sending more than 300 Malians and Chadians back to their countries of origin. According to the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this was the first time a flight of this type had left Sebha for 15 years. However, the (…)

Joint Statement

In recent years, Algeria’s public sphere has witnessed an alarming rise in hate speech and persistent incitement against migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Migrants face racist rhetoric widely circulated in some media outlets and on social media, which promotes systematic violations and fuels a general climate of marginalization and discrimination. The undersigned organizations, including Migreurop, denounce this rhetoric, and call on the Algerian authorities to halt arbitrary mass expulsions (…)

Info sheets

EuroMed Rights, together with its members and partners, ARCI, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, CNCD-11.11.11, Foundation for the Promotion of Rights (Algeria), the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), KISA, La Cimade, LDH France, and Migreurop, publish two infosheets on the EU proposal for a regulation that will revise the EU return system (so-called Return Regulation), replacing the 2008 Return Directive, highlighting its adverse impact and risks of human rights violations.
The publication follows the (…)

Opinion piece - co-signed by ANAFÉ, GISTI, JRS France, LA CIMADE

On 12 May, the French Senate will examine a bill aimed at entrusting the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) with the task of providing legal information in administrative detention centres (CRA), places of deprivation of liberty where people are detained because they do not have papers. The aim of this proposal is to remove associations from these centres by abolishing their role in helping people to exercise their rights. If adopted, this text would deal a fatal blow to (…)

Algeria TV5 Monde, ’Algérie : plus de 1800 migrants expulsés à la frontière avec le Niger’, 25 April 2025
The Algerian authorities have returned more than 1,800 people on the move without right of residence to the border town of Assamaka (Niger), bringing to 4,000 the number of people pushed back during the month of April. However, these figures only take into account people registered on the Niger side: they could therefore be higher if they included people pushed back who immediately (…)