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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Simon Speakman Cordall

Despite EU-Tunisia deal, Black refugees pushed out ‘at gunpoint’

Migrants and refugees sit on the ground in Sfax as racial tensions in the Tunisian coastal city flared into violence [File: Imed Haddad/AFP]

Tunis, Tunisia – Tunisia’s mass expulsion of Black refugees and migrants to its borders with Libya and Algeria is continuing despite the award of more than 250 million euros ($280m) in aid from the European Union to support its failing economy and better manage its borders.

At least three videos provided by NGOs and Libyan border agencies have appeared since Sunday, appearing to show Tunisian security services expelling Black men, women and children from the territory to the border with Libya, where they were forced at gunpoint to walk into the desert without food and water.

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