[Published: Wednesday May 23 2018]
 UN slams Algeria for expelling African migrants
ALGIERS 23 May (ANA) - The United Nations has criticised Algeria for expelling sub-Saharan migrants and refugees, mostly coming from Mali, Cameroon and Nigeria.
Amid Algeria's request to the UN to address the huge influx of migrants in its soils, the UN on Tuesday urged the Algerian authorities to stop with the expulsion of these migrants.
UN spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a regular UN briefing in Geneva that deportations and expulsions have increased since the second half of 2017, and a UN human rights team went to Niger to investigate this month.
"What they heard was that Algerian authorities frequently carry out mass round-ups of sub-Saharan African migrants in various parts of the country," Shamdasani said.
According to the UN team's investigations, only one out of 25 migrants had her passport checked before being expelled.
Most of them had been told to put thumbprints on Arabic documents they could not read.(ANA)
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