After a wave of arrests and racist remarks by President Kais Saied against sub-Saharan migrants, concerns are rising among the African diaspora. Some of them went to their embassies to ask for their return to their countries.
Dozens of people came to the Ivory Coast embassy in Tunisia asking for return flights. These sub-Saharans want to register to leave the country because they feel safer and more abandoned.
Among these people there is even a couple who were evicted from their home and came to the embassy with their suitcases.
This upheaval within the sub-Saharan community living in Tunisia occurred after President Kais Saied announced last Tuesday “urgent measures” against illegal sub-Saharan immigration in Tunisia, denouncing the arrival of “hordes of illegal immigrants” and “a criminal enterprise to change the demographic composition” of the country.
These remarks were condemned by the African Union, which called on member states to “refrain from any hate speech of a racist nature, likely to harm people”.
Jihan Rmili