Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the inhumane treatment of migrants turned back from Algeria and Libya and calls for the respect of human dignity in border control. From January to May 2022, MSF recorded 14,196 migrants expelled from Algeria, including 6,749 non-Nigeriens. Some 139 of these migrants were women, and 30 were minors. […]
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In September 2018, nurse Awa Abou Amadou was working at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paediatric unit in Magaria in southern Niger. It was her most challenging experience as a nurse. “We used to admit around 140 children a day. It wasn’t easy,” she says. Among other nurses and medical personnel, she worked […]
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Safi Keita, from Mali, made her living in Algeria by selling spices. Her two children had stayed in Mali with her mother, and she was four months pregnant with her third child on the day that police arrived at her home. “The gendarmes broke down the door,” she says. “They took everything: money and phones. […]
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