2024-12-12 December 2024: Migrants protest in front of the IOM in December 2024
2024-08-24 Niger: The plight of deportees. Impressions from the Agadez region from May to August 2024
2024-07-18 July 2024: Start of a new wave of deportations from Libya to Niger - 463 people left in Dirkou following deportation
2024-05-10 May 2024: 8 migrants die in Assamaka on the Niger-Algeria border
2024-04-26 Deportations of migrants from Algeria to Niger: The Algerian ambassador summoned to the Niger Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the many violent deportations of migrants from its territory
See all ticker entries

Alarme Phone Sahara (APS) is a cooperation project between associations, groups and individuals in the Sahel-Saharan region and Europe with the aim to defend the lives and the freedom of movement of migrants and refugees against repressive and often deadly migration policies. The members of the Alarme Phone Sahara network are based in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Morocco, Germany and Austria. Alarme Phone Sahara's office is located in Agadez, Niger, which is a crossroads of migration in the Sahelo-Saharan zone. There is also a network of whistleblowers in the region that works in collaboration with the Agadez office.

Learn more >>>

Tuesday, 17 December 2024
"We don't want to stay here, abandoned in the desert"

A collection of testimonies of the protest of Sudanese refugees in the Agadez camp, in Niger - published by "Refugees in Libya"

Thursday, 12 December 2024
Dirkou, Niger: Migrants protest in front of the IOM in December 2024

Having been stranded in squalor for 5 months, without sufficient food and water, they are asking for their return to their families to be facilitated.

Saturday, 24 August 2024
Niger: The plight of deportees

Impressions from the Agadez region from May to August 2024

Thursday, 18 July 2024
Start of a new wave of deportations from Libya to Niger - 463 people left in Dirkou following deportation

10,000 people arrested in Libya for deportation, according to local sources

Tuesday, 17 December 2024
"We don't want to stay here, abandoned in the desert"

A collection of testimonies of the protest of Sudanese refugees in the Agadez camp, in Niger - published by "Refugees in Libya"

Monday, 18 September 2023
Joint statement - Arrivals in Lampedusa: Solidarity and resistance in the face of Europe's reception crisis.

Following the arrival of a record number of people on the move in Lampedusa, civil society expresses its deep concern at the security response of European states, the crisis of reception, and reaffirms its solidarity with people on the move arriving in Europe.

Tuesday, 12 September 2023
On the current situation in Niger

Statement by Alarme Phone Sahara on the situation in Niger after 26th of July 2023 military coup. Alarme Phone Sahara demands to stop threats of war and lift sanctions imposed on Niger, to organise humanitarian corridors, evacuations and resettlements for migrants and refugees stranded in Niger and to guarantee humanitarian assistance for those in need.

Friday, 17 March 2023
Testimonies of two Guinean migrants deported from Algeria, Assamaka 17 March 2023

The two persons were interviewed by the Alarme Phone Sahara team.

Saturday, 24 August 2024
Niger: The plight of deportees

Impressions from the Agadez region from May to August 2024

Thursday, 18 July 2024
Start of a new wave of deportations from Libya to Niger - 463 people left in Dirkou following deportation

10,000 people arrested in Libya for deportation, according to local sources

Friday, 26 April 2024
Deportations of migrants from Algeria to Niger: The Algerian ambassador summoned to the Niger Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the many violent deportations of migrants from its territory

Alarme Phone Sahara welcomes the Nigerien government's response to Algeria over the mass pushbacks in the desert towards Niger.

Friday, 22 December 2023
Alarme Phone Sahara mission to Assamaka, December 2023 - Impressions from the Niger-Algeria border

From 15 to 22 December 2023, an Alarme Phone Sahara (APS) mission was held in Assamaka, the village on the Niger-Algeria border where most of the transit traffic between Algeria and Niger takes place, but where the deportation convoys with thousands of people deported from Algeria to Niger also arrive. In 2023, at least 2,631 people were deported from Algeria to Niger via Assamaka - the highest figure in recent years.