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Sub-Saharan Africans recount Tunisia ‘hell’ amid crackdown

Undocumented immigrants are camping outdoors after having been displaced in Tunis [Hassene Dridi/AP]

African countries have launched repatriation schemes after Tunisia’s President Kais Saied launched a crackdown against undocumented sub-Saharan nationals, whom he accused of crimes and plotting to change the country’s demographic makeup.

The Ivory Coast was preparing to fly nearly 300 citizens out of Tunisia on Saturday, the ambassador in Tunis told AFP, as dozens of nationals gathered outside the embassy in Tunis.

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