Alarmphone Sahara

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.

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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.

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Monday, 11 October 2021

9th and 11th of October 2021: 1092 people deported from Algeria to Niger

Regular mass deportations from Algeria to Niger continue. With at least 587 people deported in a non-official deportation convoy on 9th of October and at least 505 people deported on 11th of October 2021 in an official convoy, the number of people deported since the beginning of the year 2021 amounts to at least 19841 people. In addition, the situation of Nigerien citizens among the deportees is exacerbated by the fact that since 2020, the Nigerien state no longer supports these people in returning to their home communities.

Thursday, 07 October 2021

Refugees in Libya: Urgent letter to African Union after brutal raids and killings

On 7th of October 2021, refugees and migrants in Libya published an urgent letter to the African Union. After the latest wave of brutal raids against migrants and refugees in Tripoli. people started a protest in front of the Tripoli UNHCR office. According to refugees in Libya, 6 persons were murdered by detention guards.

Sunday, 26 September 2021

Libya, 25th/26th of September 2021: Dead bodies of 4 refugees found in the desert

R.I.P.

According to "actumigrant", the dead bodies of four refugees were found in the Libyan desert on the weekend of 25th/26th of September 2021.

Friday, 01 October 2021

29th of September and 1st of October 2021: 2169 people deported from Algeria to Niger in two big deportation convoys

Regular mass deportations from Algeria to Niger continue. With at least 894 people deported in a non-official deportation convoy on 29th of September and at least 1275 people deported on the first of October 2021 in a large official convoy, the number of people deported since the beginning of the year 2021 amounts to at least 18749 people.

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Tuesday, 26 October 2021

The three borders of the Sahel

Article by Mauro Armanino
Illustrations: Dan Yayé M

Thursday, 07 October 2021

Refugees in Libya: Urgent letter to African Union after brutal raids and killings

Friday, 06 August 2021

The criminalisation of mobility and the rhetoric of defending migrants: the Niger experiment

An anasysis by ASGI, Italian partner organisation of Alarme Phone Sahara (APS) - with an interview with APS.

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Friday, 04 June 2021

Declaration of the transnational day of action "FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT INSTEAD OF DEPORTATIONS!", 21st May 2021, to the embassy of Niger in Berlin

No to deportations from Algeria to Niger!
No to the criminalization of migration and the closure of borders and migration routes in Niger!

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Tuesday, 08 June 2021

Alarme Phone Sahara's assistance for migrants in Agadez

While many migrants and refugees are blocked in Niger, often as a consequence of brutal mass deportations from Algeria, Alarme Phone Sahara in Agadez is organising various forms of practical assistance. For example for a migrant woman from Nigeria whose personal belongings had been misappropriated or for people in distress after having been deported from Algeria:

Friday, 21 May 2021

Video of transnational day of action "FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, STOP DEPORTATIONS" on 21st of May 2021

Protest bus tour in front of the embassies of Niger, Tunisia and Algeria in Berlin

Friday, 21 May 2021

21st of May 2021: Transnational Day of Action "Freedom of Movement instead of deportations!"

On 21st of May 2021, the transnational network "Afrique Europe Interact" and Alarme Phone Sahara, together with different partner groups, celebrated the transnational day of action "FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT INSTEAD OF DEPORTATIONS!" to demonstrate against deportations from Europe to African countries, but also deportations between African countries, encouraged by readmission agreements and by the externalisation of the EU border regime

Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Food kit to mitigate migrant vulnerability

Alarme Phone Sahara (APS) is fulfilling the proposal of one of its partners to provide assistance to migrant households blocked in their right to move. A total of eight (8) households testify to this humanitarian gesture which is materializing at a crucial moment.

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