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Niger: Law Against Transporting Migrants Repealed in Niger
allAfrica, 28 November 2023
The military administration of Niger repealed anti-migration legislation that helped in lowering the number of West Africans travelling to Europe, but was despised by residents of… Read more »
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Niger: Central Niger Celebrates Junta's Repeal of Migration Law
DW, 29 November 2023
The EU is "very concerned" that Niger's military leaders revoked an EU-backed law criminalizing migration. But residents of Niger's ancient crossroad town of Agadez are overjoyed… Read more »
Niger Repeals Anti-Migration Law
The military administration of Niger has repealed anti-migration legislation that helped in lowering the number of West Africans travelling to Europe, but was despised by residents of the desert whose businesses depended on the traffic, BBC reports.
The European Union (EU) says it is "very concerned" that Niger's military leaders revoked an EU-backed law, but residents of Niger's ancient crossroad town of Agadez are overjoyed about the move.
This comes after Niger's military junta signed an order revoking a law to curb the smuggling of migrants from West Africa heading north toward Europe. The law was enacted in 2015, under heavy pressure from the EU, at the height of the European migrant crisis.
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The U.S. Senate decisively rejected a bill on Thursday, October 26, 2023, that would have forced President Joe Biden to withdraw American troops from Niger, a West African country ... Read more »
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Tunisia and Libya will split the cost of housing hundreds of migrants who were stuck at their borders, many of whom had been there for more than a month, Al Arabiya ... Read more »
As of March 2023, thousands of migrants expelled from Algeria and abandoned in the desert of northern Niger are stranded in Assamaka without access to shelter, health care, protection or basic necessities.
