An “unbearable distress”. Many refugees and migrants have been stranded for several weeks in dire conditions near Tunisia’s borders with Libya and Algeria. In order to protest against this situation which cannot be resolved, the rapper Gims announced the cancellation of his concert scheduled for August 11 in Tunisia, in Djerba. Migrants are indeed stranded there. “Children, women, men, expelled from Tunisia to Libya, live in inhumane conditions,” the rapper wrote on his Instagram Story on Sunday.
“I cannot maintain my visit to Tunisia, scheduled for August 11,” he adds. “I don’t know where the solutions are. But this extreme distress is unbearable. »
On Thursday, the UN called for “urgent solutions” to rescue the hundreds of refugees and migrants stranded near Tunisia’s borders with Libya and Algeria.
Many of these African migrants were driven out of the Tunisian city of Sfax (center-east), the main point of departure for illegal emigration to Europe, following clashes that claimed the life of a Tunisian on 3 July.
These migrants “are stranded in the desert, facing extreme heat and without access to shelter, food or water”, alerted the UN agencies for refugees (UNHCR) and migrants. (IOM), noting that there are reports of deaths.
