West African governments help evacuate hundreds of migrants from Tunisia who became targets of a growing number of attacks after xenophobic comments from President Kais Saied
politicians, judges, journalists and trade unionists. Critics have called it a creeping dictatorship. The anti-immigrant campaign is his latest move
Analysts have pointed out that Mr. Saied’s allegations against migrants are similar to the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory of far-right political leaders and white nationalists in Europe and the United States, who have claimed that elites are using immigration to “replace” the white population of their countries. His comments have already been praised by a French far-right leader, Éric Zemmour.
Ivory Coast, Guinea and Mali have organized evacuation flights for hundreds of their citizens in the past few days. “Further repatriation flights are planned in the coming days,” Ivory Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi said in a tweet on Sunday. “The urgency is to protect the lives of our compatriots,” government spokesman Amadou Coulibaly told a briefing on Friday.
Another country, Niger, could also be evacuating some of its citizens. In Tunisia, an association of students from Niger said on the weekend that it was accepting registrations from those who want to return home.
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