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In a year-long investigation released last week, UK-based Lighthouse Reports revealed that EU funding is being used for an ongoing wave of “desert dumps” across Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. File photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Senegalese migrants on hunger strike in Western Sahara after Moroccan navy interception

North African countries are arresting black people they suspect are headed to Europe, and abandoning them in ‘desert dumps’

  • Des Erasmus
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Migrants of various nationalities are rescued by the Spanish NGO Open Arms in international waters on September 30, 2023. The migrants are from Syria, Bangladesh, Sudan, Eritrea, Palestine, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Egypt, Chat, Senegal and Mali. (Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Europe brewed its so-called ‘migrant crisis’

Decades before today’s migrants boarded small boats to Europe to ‘take their jobs’, European fishing ships were trawling West African waters, taking food and jobs from the locals. And they still are

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