Alarme Phone Sahara deportation ticker

We document deportations from Algeria to Niger. We demand to stop all deportations and to protect the lives and the rights of migrants and refugees.

2023-12-11 Repeal of the "anti-migration" law 2015-036 in Niger!
2023-10-30 30 October 2023: Malian migrants leave Arlit on foot to return to Mali
2023-10-17 17.10.2023: The fire of hope in the desert as an alert signal to save lives
2023-10-18 Assamaka, September and October 2023: Regular mass deportations from Algeria to Niger continue. Deportees trapped in miserable conditions.
2023-10-04 04.10.2023: Distress call from a Cameroonian migrant in Libya
2023-08-30 August 2023: Deported persons stranded in Assamaka and elsewhere in Niger in conditions that remain precarious. Deportations continued by Algeria.
2023-07-23 July 16th + 23rd: Shameful agreement between Tunisia and the EU amidst mass deportations, human rights violations and deaths of migrants in the desert.
2023-07-06 Deportations in Tunesia to the Tunisian-Libyan border.
2023-05-05 Alarme Phone Sahara report on situation at Assamaka, May 2023 Humanitarian crisis persists in Assamaka despite aid initiatives. Deported migrants make an urgent appeal to their heads of state and the African Union.
2023-03-17 Humanitarian crisis in Assamaka on the Niger-Algeria border: Thousands of people deported from Algeria in vulnerable conditions and left on their own in the middle of the Sahara without shelter and care.
2023-02-14 Assamaka: More than 1,000 deportees outside without shelter - inaccessibility to IOM services 10, 12 and 14 February 2023: Arrival of at least 2298 people deported from Algeria to Niger in Assamaka.
2022-12-04 Niger end 2022: Humanitarian emergency in the face of mass deportations and inaccessibility to IOM services
2022-10-21 October 2022: Deportations from Algeria to Niger continue - assistance to deportees by Alarme Phone Sahara's tricycle
2022-09-19 August and September 2022: At least 4747 people deported from Algeria to Niger.
2022-07-31 29th and 31st of July 2022: New deportations Algeria-Niger. APS starts tricycle operation in Assamaka to assist deportees.
2022-06-27 Mass deportations from Algeria to Niger April to June 2022 At least 6583 people deported in 3 months. Report of a Guinean man killed during deportation
2022-06-24 24th of June 2022, Melilla: Dozens of migrants killed by Moroccan security forces! Spanish-Moroccan migration agreement kills!
2022-03-22 20th and 22nd of March 2022: More deportation convoys arrive in Niger, while living conditions of deportees are deteriorating.
2022-03-10 January to March 2022: Mass deportations from Algeria and Libya to Niger. At least 3376 people deported from Algeria to Niger since the beginning of 2022 until 8th of March.
2022-01-17 8th of December 2021: Death at point zero / Assamaka after deportation convoy At least one Sudanese man died among 3269 people deported from Algeria to Niger in December 2021
2021-11-21 November 2021: At least 2286 people deported from Algeria to Niger in four deportation convoys. Deported persons also facing police repression in Niger.
2021-10-11 9th and 11th of October 2021: 1097 people deported from Algeria to Niger in a non-official and an official deportation convoy
2021-10-07 Refugees in Libya: Urgent letter to African Union after brutal raids and killings
2021-09-26 Libya, 25th/26th of September 2021: Dead bodies of 4 refugees found in the desert
2021-10-01 29th of September 2021: 894 people from various African countries deported in a non-official deportation convoy. Biggest groups: 284 people from Guinea Conakry, 181 people from Mali and 179 people from Sudan.
2021-10-01 1st of October 2021: 1275 people, mostly citizens of Niger, including 167 minor girls and boys, deported from Algeria to Niger in a huge official deportation convoy. Concern about high number of minors deported.
2021-04-12 12th of April 2021: 1329 citizens of Niger, including 300 minor girls and boys, deported from Algeria to Niger in a huge official deportation convoy.
2021-04-26 26th of April 2021: 76 people from different sub-Saharan African countries, including 12 minors, deported from Algeria to Niger in a non-official convoy.
2021-04-27 27th of April 2021: 398 people, including 9 minor girls and boys, deported from Algeria to Niger in an official convoy.
2021-05-08 08th of May 2021: 455 people, including 3 minor girls and boys, deported from Algeria to Niger in an unofficial convoy. Among them mostly nationals of sub-Saharan African countries, but also two persons from Syria. The largest groups: 142 citizens from Guinea Conakry and 152 from Mali.
2021-05-10 10th of May 2021: 1238 people, including 237 minor girls and boys, deported from Algeria to Niger in a huge official deportation convoy.
2021-05-26 26th of May 2021: 517 nationals from various sub-Saharan African countries deported from Algeria to Niger in a non-official convoy. The biggest groups: 189 citizens from Guinea Conakry and 135 from Mali.
2021-05-28 28th of May 2021: 1060 Niger nationals, including 212 minor girls and boys, deported from Algeria to Niger in a huge official deportation convoy.
2021-06-20 20th of June 2021: 251 nationals from various sub-Saharan African countries deported from Algeria to Niger in a non-official deportation convoy.
2021-06-21 21st of June 2021: 310 nationals from Niger, including 84 minor girls and boys, deported from Algeria to Niger in an official deportation convoy.
2021-07-02 1st and 2nd of July 2021: 683 people from various sub-Saharan African countries, including one minor girl, deported from Algeria to Niger in two unofficial deportation convoys. Largest groups: 263 citizens from Guinea Conakry and 205 from Mali.
2021-08-27 27th of August 2021: 987 people deported from Algeria to Niger in an official deportation convoy. Among them are 167 girls and boys of minor age.
2021-08-25 25th of August 2021: 590 people deported from Algeria to Niger in a non-official convoy. The biggest groups: 158 people from Mali an 144 from Guinea Conakry.
2021-08-03 3rd of August 2021: 134 persons deported from Algeria to Niger in an official deportation convoy
2021-07-18 16th and 18th of July 2021: 1288 people deported from Algeria to Niger in an official and a non-official deportation convoy. 293 citizens of Guinea Conakry and 262 citizens of Mali among the people deported.
2021-07-03 3rd of July 2021: 1015 people deported from Algeria to Niger in a huge official deportation convoy. Among them 206 minor girls and boys. No clarification yet about reports of people injured and killed in bus accidents on 12th and 25th of March.
2021-03-30 28th and 30th of March 2021: 1285 people deported from Algeria to Niger in a non-official and an official convoy. Concern about high number of minors deported.
2021-03-23 21st and 23rd of March 2021: 1812 people deported from Algeria to Niger in a non-official and an official deportation convoy. Concern about high number of minors deported.
2021-03-16 14th and 16th of March 2021: 2098 people deported from Algeria to Niger in a non-official and an official deportation convoy. 60 people killed in a bus accident according to Algerian sources.
2021-03-11 5th and 11th of March 2021: 1054 people deported from Algeria to Niger in a non-official and an official deportation convoy.