African migrants suffer under crackdown in Tunisia


Ivory Coast nationals living in Tunisia and seeking repatriation, wait outside the embassy of Ivory Coast in Tunis, Tunisia February 27, 2023. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui

TUNIS (Reuters) - Since Tunisia's president announced a crackdown on illegal immigration last week using language the African Union denounced as racialised, Malian construction worker Mohamed Kony has been evicted from his apartment and sacked from his job.

Unemployed, homeless and without legal residency, he now fears he will face the fate of several of his friends who have been attacked on the street.

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