Tunisia
Tunisia evacuates camp housing 3000 illegal migrants
Tunisian authorities on Thursday have evacuated a camp housing around 3,000 illegal migrants in the port city of Sfax,
Mauritania's former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz appeared in court on Wednesday at the opening of his appeal against a jail sentence for abuse of power and embezzlement.
Aziz, who ruled the 4.5 million-population country between north Africa and sub-Saharan Africa between 2008 and 2019, was found guilty and sentenced to five years in jail in December 2023. His lawyers have appealed the sentence.
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Tunisia
Tunisia evacuates camp housing 3000 illegal migrants
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Alarme Phone Sahara (APS), a humanitarian organization that operates a hotline for migrants in distress, reports that Algeria expelled 1,