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Niger wants to put an end to Algeria’s “aggressive” policy of arresting, deporting and abandoning Sub-Saharan migrants on the Sahara borders. “Niger denounces large-scale police raids recently targeting Sub-Saharan Africans, including many Nigeriens, residing in Tamanrasset (Southern Algeria), disregarding their physical integrity and security of their property,” wrote Niger’s foreign ministry in a press statement on 3 April. The ministry’s Facebook page shared videos showing dozens of Nigeriens in Algeria getting loaded onto trucks towards the border or abandoned on foot in the desert, some w…

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