Over 7,000 people with irregular administrative status, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa (and largely from Niger), were expelled from Algeria into the Assamaka desert in Niger in April and May 2025. “This is an unprecedented wave of pushbacks,” explains Dr. Toupou Lancinet, General Coordinator of M\u00e9decins du Monde in Niger. “While such expulsions are frequent, this is the first time that so many Migrants have been expelled from Algeria at once,” he added. Furthermore, according to the Agadez governorate, over 700 children were recorded among the thousands of people pushed back from Algeria in April and May. Due to the saturation of the transit centre for children, the latter were either taken in by volunteer host families or left to fend for themselves on the streets of Agadez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5217,"template":"","actualite_type":[10],"actualite_sujet":[],"action_combat":[42],"mdm_pays":[],"class_list":["post-5212","actualite","type-actualite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","actualite_type-international-actions","action_combat-humanitarian-crises"],"acf":{"mise_en_avant":false,"chapeau":"Over 7,000 people with irregular administrative status, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa (and largely from Niger), were expelled from Algeria into the Assamaka desert in Niger in April and May 2025. \"This is an unprecedented wave of pushbacks,\" explains Dr. Toupou Lancinet, General Coordinator of M\u00e9decins du Monde in Niger. \"While such expulsions are frequent, this is the first time that so many Migrants have been expelled from Algeria at once,\" he added. Furthermore, according to the Agadez governorate, over 700 children were recorded among the thousands of people pushed back from Algeria in April and May. Due to the saturation of the transit centre for children, the latter were either taken in by volunteer host families or left to fend for themselves on the streets of Agadez.","cta_type":"aucun","cta_lien":"","contenu":"
\u201cThese people cross the desert by truck, in extreme climatic conditions (drought, temperatures exceeding 44\u00b0C, sandstorms) and without any access to medical care, food or drinking water. They no longer have any material possessions. Upon disembarking from the trucks, they rush thirstily to the water points set up by M\u00e9decins du Monde at the site for rejected persons in Agadez,\u201d comments Toupou Lancinet.<\/p>\n
A situation that is inhuman, as testified by Zalika, a young girl met by M\u00e9decins du Monde\u2019s teams: \u201cThe conditions are terrible. The trucks are open-air, it is extremely hot. In the one where my husband was, a man died of dehydration. As soon as we pass through a town, we scream for the driver to stop so we can get water. But he never stops. Some faint, others succumb to their injuries on the return journey. It\u2019s horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
In collaboration with the teams from the Agadez health district, M\u00e9decins du Monde\u2019s teams (nurses, midwives, psychologists, social workers) intervene in particular at the reception and assistance site for migrants in Agadez, providing medical and psychological care for migrants, or referring the most serious cases to secondary healthcare facilities. \u201cGenerally, this site receives an average of 400 people each month. In April, it received 2,600! We conducted 446 medical consultations during the last five waves of arrivals in April in Agadez. The needs are immense; people often have physical trauma, gastric pain, headaches, respiratory conditions and skin diseases (particularly children under 15, including unaccompanied minors). These illnesses are linked to the unsanitary conditions they are subjected to,\u201d warns Toupou Lancinet.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, M\u00e9decins du Monde is alarmed by the increasing number of acts of violence, including sexual violence against minors, and illegal seizures of property.<\/p>\n