FILE PHOTO: A view shows tents at a temporary camp where African migrants have lived since what they say authorities urged landlords to force them from their homes, near the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in Tunis, Tunisia March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui/File Photo
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian authorities have dismantled makeshift camps housing 7,000 sub-Saharan African migrants and begun forcibly deporting some of them, a senior official told Reuters on Saturday, as the country grapples with an unprecedented migrant crisis.
Houssem Eddine Jebabli, an official in the National Guard, told Reuters a number of migrants was arrested for violence during the ongoing operation. He said their forced repatriation began Friday night and the authorities are also seeking to voluntarily repatriate thousands more.
