Niger: Deportations Put Migrants' Lives At Risk

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Safi Keita left Mali for Algeria to make a living selling spices. Her two children had stayed behind with her mother, and she was four months pregnant with her third child on the day that Algerian police arrived at her home. "The [police officers] broke down the door," she said. "They took everything: money and phones. Then they took me to the police station."

The following day, Keita was put in a truck and taken to a detention center. "They put us in crowded trucks--it was very cramped, there were many of us and no one was wearing a mask," she said. On arrival, she was made to jump from the truck to the ground. "Being pregnant, it caused me stomach pains," she said.

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