EU accused of funding units that dump migrants in North African desert
- Migrants are arrested and deported to desert areas in Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritania using European Union funds, violating human rights.
- Abandoned in the Sahara Desert, migrants aiming to reach Europe lack essentials like water and shoes.
- Survivors recount experiencing kidnappings, extortion, torture, sexual violence, and attacks by security forces.
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EU accused of providing finance to units dumping migrants in middle of North African desert - 'Death sentence'
The EU supports and finances operations in North Africa to dump migrants in the middle of the desert, an investigation has claimed.Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritania have been accused of using EU funds to round up migrants and discard them in the Sahara, where they face kidnap, torture, sexual violence and death.The migrants are often left without water, money, phones, or even shoes, in the world’s hottest desert. The practice is carried out in or…
Accused of financing the abandonment of migrants in the Sahara, the EU only recognizes a “difficult situation”
Europe is suspected in a wide investigation of "supporting" and "financing" "clandestine operations" aimed at "abandoning" tens of thousands of migrants in the African desert each year. The European Commission has promised to "continue to work" on these ...
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