Algeria expels over 1,800 migrants to Niger border, rights group says
Algeria expelled 1,845 migrants to Niger’s border in a mass operation on April 19, rights group Alarmphone Sahara
A mass grave containing "at least 65 migrants' bodies" was discovered in southwest Libya this week, according to the UN migration agency.
A spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) told AFP the
mass grave was uncovered by Libyan security forces.
The IOM said it was "profoundly shocked and alarmed". It added that the
circumstances of the deaths "remains unknown".
"But it is believed that they died in the process of being smuggled through
the desert," the agency said in a statement.
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