🇺🇸 Abandoned In Sahara, With E.U. Complicity

▫With Europe's Support, North African nations push migrants to the desert
▫Anthony Faiola Imogen Piper Joyce Sohyun Lee May Bulman & Klaas van Dijken
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#frontpagestoday #USA The Washington Post 🇺🇸

With the backing and support of the European Union, North African nations are detaining thousands of migrants and dumping them in remote areas, an investigation by The Post, Lighthouse Reports and a consortium of international media outlets finds.
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A must read piece by Lighthouse Reports shows how EU is hiding from the responsibility of funding grave human rights violations in N. Africa

This piece was possible thanks to the survivors & victims who spoke out & the selforganized groups like Refugees In Libya

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This is where the EU's migration deals lead to: paying autocrats to dump people in the desert, leave them to die.

Instead of promoting European values, Commission and EU leaders knowingly kill human lives and human rights.

Lighthouse Reports brings the EU's darkest hypocrisy to light

Massive investigation in the The Washington Post today:

“With Europe’s support, North African nations push migrants to the desert”

The investigation focused on Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania and the EU’s “involvement with anti-migrant operations in North Africa.”

Europe is giving huge sums of money to N African countries each year in an effort to curb migration

Our year-long investigation reveals this money is being used to indiscriminately round up Black people & dump them in desert areas, sometimes leaving them for dead

Short thread🧵

Lighthouse Reports Europe doesn’t want to get its hands dirty, so it’s outsourcing 'migration management' to 3rd countries (aka border externalisation)

& turning a blind eye to grave & systematic human rights abuses taking place as a result

Read full thread/articles here: x.com/LHreports/stat…

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 🧵

Deeply proud of the team who produced the Left Behind series which just won an Amnesty Award! Congratulations to our partners The Independent and the great reporting team May Bulman Fahim Abed Monica C. Camacho Holly Bancroft. More to come on the abandonment of Afghan allies

Next up, the winner of the Written News category is ‘Murdered, tortured or in hiding from the Taliban: The special forces abandoned by Britain’ from The Independent and Lighthouse Reports

A big congratulations to Holly Bancroft May Bulman Fahim Abed and Monica C. Camacho

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🚨Ongoing mass desert  dumping by the Tunisian authorities. 

Yesterday  at approximately 3 am, multiple police forces including special riot control and anti-terrorism units dismantled the protest camp outside the UNHCR office in the Lac zone of Tunis. Hundreds of refugees and

This is a plea for help: a group of 20 people were apprehended in Tunis, near the UNHCR, then driven 100s of kilometres, closer to the border with Algeria. They have toddlers and children so the need for assistance is a pressing priority. Any orgs/humanitarians out there?

We speak to a Syrian man, at an immigration enforcement reporting centre in Loughborough, who tells Darshna Soni he was detained today and has been told he will be deported to Rwanda.

In this whole debate, the voices of Rwandans are not often heard, so for Al Jazeera English I spoke to people in Kigali about how they think the deal could affect their country, which is struggling with an unemployment and housing crisis. aljazeera.com/features/2024/…

This was presented at the EU Parliament by Lighthouse Reports with their investigation revealing that Frontex routinely shares coordinates of migrant boats with the so-called Libyan coastguard.

It is an endless shame that the EU has decided that’s de facto border management policy.