This graphic history, which I have written and Majdouline, my daughter, has illustrated, is a sketch and visual memoir of Faraji's life as a rekkas, or foot courier during the French colonial period.

Tens of thousands of Black refugees & migrants are being rounded up across North Africa & dumped in the desert & remote areas, sometimes left for dead

These operations are secretly financed with European money, despite regional and EU denials 🧵

A year ago today, we kicked off the The Hope Border Institute 2023 Spring Academy in #ElPaso right as #Title42 was being phased out. We've been busy these months reflecting on how protection in the context of migration looks like from the borderlands. Watch this space for news real soon!

Spoke with Al Jazeera English on how refugees and migrants fleeing from war, conflict and corrupt gov's are ending up trapped in Tunisia, unable to move on or return home. An intended consequence of EU externalization I argue.
Simon S. Cordall Hamza Meddeb DIIS Denmark aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/10…

#Tunisia : The #migration trap aje.io/5agzja via Al Jazeera English Ahlam Chemlali Hafed Al Ghwell - حافظ الغويل SAIS Foreign Policy Institute

Spoke with Al Jazeera English on how refugees and migrants fleeing from war, conflict and corrupt gov's are ending up trapped in Tunisia, unable to move on or return home. An intended consequence of EU externalization I argue.
Simon S. Cordall Hamza Meddeb DIIS Denmark aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/10…

#Tunisia : “Italy and the European Union consistently try to externalise their migration concerns to Tunisia and Libya, urging each to halt the flow of desperate people from their shores.”
The growing tensions in N Africa.
W/ comments by Ahlam Chemlali and Hamza Meddeb

#Tunisia : “Italy and the European Union consistently try to externalise their migration concerns to Tunisia and Libya, urging each to halt the flow of desperate people from their shores.”
The growing tensions in N Africa.
W/ comments by Ahlam Chemlali and Hamza Meddeb

“These are the consequences of border externalisation policies, which de facto are trapping thousands of people within #Tunisia , while reinforcing the president’s racialised attacks on migrants,' Ahlam Chemlali

aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/10…

Crisis to watch: #Tunisia

At least 400 migrants, refugees & asylum seekers, incl. women & children, have been arrested & forcibly relocated to desert areas near #Algeria . Most of them are from Chad, South Sudan & Sudan. They are without food & water.

➡️acaps.org/en/countries/t…

Now out in issue 29(3): Rings in the Water: Felt Externalisation and its Rippling Effect in the Extended EU borderlands' by Ahlam Chemlali Ahlam Chemlali

Read more here: buff.ly/42b7l3x

'Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive.' ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Spoke with The New Arab Jakob Plaschke on the deteriorating human rights situation in Tunisia where thousands of African migrants trapped in Tunisias olive fields are being bounced back and forth between the sea, and the Libyan & Algerian borders.
newarab.com/features/afric… DIIS Denmark

Spoke with Al Jazeera English about the recent $8bn deal with Egypt to stop migration and how this is, as I argue, an obvious clash between what the EU calls its principles and the states it’s dealing with along the Mediterranean. Simon S. Cordall DIIS Denmark

aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/27…

Ahlam Chemlali er min kollega på DIIS Denmark. Jeg bliver løbende imponeret over, hvor dygtig hun er, og drømmer om at arbejde mere sammen med hende, hvis fondsguderne er med os. Følg hende, hvis du vil vide mere om Nordafrika og migration.

While children in Gaza have their legs amputated without anaesthetic, CNN (!) reports that the items most frequently denied entry by Israel include “anesthesia machines and anesthetics, crutches, generators, ventilators, x-ray machines and oxygen cylinders.”

New article in JEMS by Ahlam Chemlali DIIS Denmark
examines the experiences of migrant women in transit countries and highlights how mobility and immobility are deeply intertwined

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

1/3 The residents of Gaza are starving due to the humanitarian crisis Israel has intentionally created in the Gaza Strip. Their attempts to access the scarce aid allowed in led, this morning, to the death of dozens of people after soldiers fired into the crowd. >>

'Succeshistorien om Tunesien er et eurocentrisk og romantiseret billede af Tunesien,' fortæller Ahlam Chemlali fra DIIS Denmark i Globalnyts nye serie 'Det Digitale Forår'

'Man kan jo ikke spise forfatningen', lyder forklaringen ofte fra de trængte tunesere globalnyt.dk/var-tunesien-v…

#Israel /oPt: UN experts appalled by egregious human rights violations to which #Palestinian women & girls continue to be subjected in #Gaza & #WestBank , incl. credible reports of arbitrary executions, sexual assault & other degrading treatments

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