Migrants and Refugees

Algeria

13/06/2025-03/07/2025

• • On June 26th, Radio des Sans Voix published an article focusing on the Saharawis living in five camps near Tindouf. More than 150,000 Saharawis live almost exclusively on international aid and suffer from severe food insecurity and malnutrition.  
  • On June 19th,  Radio des Sans Voix explained and denounced the deportation of migrants from Algeria to Niger. More than 16,000 people have been victims of these inhumane pushbacks since April 2025. These expulsions are based on an agreement concluded in 2014 between Algeria and Niger, which authorises the repatriation of Nigerien migrants in a so-called irregular situation. However, alongside this official system, much less transparent practices are developing. Nationals of other countries (such as Côte d’Ivoire, Mali or Guinea) are also expelled, often without prior provisions and abandoned in desert areas at the border, where temperatures exceed 45 °C. 
  • “The hard right is relentlessly attacking the 1968 and 2013 agreements and visas for Algerians,” wrote the media Tsa Algérie on June 16th. Indeed, the Union of the Right in France is calling for the abolition of two texts: the 1968 text governing the stay of Algerian nationals in France for more than half a century and the 2013 one on the exemption of visas for holders of diplomatic passports of either country. 
  • In June, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation published a report entitled “Suppression of Movement: Migration Control, Manufactured Precarity, and Racialised Border Regimes in Post-Hirak Algeria – In the Name of Sovereignty, at the Service of Rent Accumulation.” English and Arabic versions are available. 

LATEST UPDATES

For the period from June 2022 to March 2023, click here.

For the period from June 2021 to May 2022, click here.

For the period from September 2020 to June 2021, click here.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.