Tunisian authorities expelled hundreds of sub-Saharan asylum-seekers, migrants, and refugees from encampments in the capital, Tunis, in the early hours of Friday, according to a non-governmental organization.
The Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights (FTDES) reported that makeshift settlements, including one near the International Organization for Migration (IOM), were dismantled, and the migrants were "deported to the Algerian border."
Up to 700 sub-Saharan migrants had established these makeshift encampments in the Lac 1 area, north of the Gulf of Tunis, over the past few months, according to the rights group.
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