Every year, at the global CommemorAction, people remember the at least 15 people who were killed by Spanish border police on 6 February 2014 on Tarajal beach on the border between Morocco and Ceuta – as well as the many who disappeared that day. Tarajal stands for all those who have died or gone missing as a result of a European border system based on isolation, violence and systematic impunity.
The theme of CommemorAction 2026 was: EVERY LIFE IS WORTH MORE THAN THEIR LAWS, THEIR WALLS AND THEIR WEAPONS!
The deaths of people on the move are not accidents or coincidences – they are politically motivated and the direct consequence of a murderous border regime, created and externalised by the EU member states and many others adopting the same logics.
Alarme Phone Sahara and its allies have also been part of the CommemorAction 2026. They have shown signs of humane solidarity at times where the externalisation of the European border regime and anti-migrant deals between EU-states and various African governments are producing large scale border violence, ruthless interceptions at sea, mass deportations and pushbacks into desert areas and incarceration and criminalisation of people on the move and their supporters. Signs of humane solidarity against a system that has already killed thousands of people and is denying freedom of movement not only between Africa and Europe, but also inside the African continent.
Here are some impressions of CommemorAction on 6 February 2026:
In Niamey, Niger by Alarme Phone Sahara (APS) in collaboration with the Pastoral Service for Migrants (SPM):
In Sokodé, Togo, by Afrique Europe Interact Togo in collaboration with Alarme Phone Sahara (APS):
In Bamako, Mali, Lafiabougou-neighbourhood, by Afrique Europe Interact Mali in collaboration with the Malian Association of Deportees (AME). Theme: ‘Migrating to survive – too many dead people, enough is enough!’
In Conakry, Guinea, by the Rastafari Council of Guinea (CORASGUI).
Among other things, CORASGUI has shown solidarity with people on the move, denounced the border regime imposed by European states, defended the right to migrate and the right to stay, and called on African governments, among others, to fight to facilitate visa procedures:
In Tunis, organised by the Association of Mothers of the Disappeared in Tunisia.
With contributions from, among others, Dr Mayssa Joabli of the University of Parma and a representative of ‘Sans Visa’:
In Oujda, Morocco, organised by the Association of Migrants in Vulnerable Situations (AMSV) with many families of missing, detained and deceased persons and other participants from different sides:
Meanwhile, in the Sfax area in Tunisia, people on the move stuck in the olive groves are mourning their loved ones who are among the over 1000 feared missing or dead following the cyclone “Harry” between January 14 to January 22, 2026:
Video of migrants' mourning in Sfax
CommemorAction is a collective act of resistance – in solidarity with survivors and with the families and friends of the dead and missing worldwide.
These policies of the border regime kill! We will not forget! For freedom of movement and a world of solidarity without borders!
