This figure exceeds all those documented by the NGO in recent years. In 2023, it had recensed only a little more than 26 000. The organisation also denounces the conditions under which expulsions take place. A little more than 30 000 people 31 404 très exactement were expelled from Algeria to Niger in 2024 according to the count carried out by the NGO Alarme Phone Sahara (APS), which also judges that these expulsions take place in “inhumane conditions”. Once in Niger, the latter remain temporarily stranded in several localities in the region of Agadez where they live in precarious conditions because the camps of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) are sometimes overcrowded and the administrative formalities for return to their countries of origin can take time. The APS furthermore denounces the mass arrests carried out by the Algerian security forces, the raids they carry out against the places of life and work of migrants such as construction sites, and an increase in what it calls the expulsions en chaine: from Tunisia to Algeria, then from Algeria to Niger.
Algeria has expelled more than 30 000 people to Niger in 2024, according to…
