Tag: Nigerian Migrants

Nigerians, others attacked in Tunisia as President Saied calls black Africans ‘criminals’

Aminu Imam

Several Nigerians, as well as their Ivoriens, have fled their homes in Tunisia in the face of state-sanctioned attacks, taking refuge on the premises of their country’s embassy. They were attacked by Tunisian nationals, as President Kais Saied continues to deepen discrimination and unfair prejudice against dark-skinned people from Africa.  Saied recently announced that sub-Saharan migrants were on a mission to weaken the country’s Islamic Arab identity and their presence in the country has to end.  “There is a criminal plan to change the composition of the demographic landscape in…

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75 stranded Nigerian migrants, others rescued in Sahara desert

Ishaku Yohanna

Seventy-five Nigerian migrants, 41 of them women, including twin four-year-old girls, as well as four Togolese, three Ghanaians, and a Malian, were saved last week after their smugglers abandoned them in the Sahara desert in northern Niger, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. A team from the IOM and Niger’s Civil Protection service found the group of eighty-three 230 kilometers (140 miles) from the crossroads town of Dirkou on September 3, the agency said. They had left the Nigerien town of Agadez, the main stepping-off point for…

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