Today, the first plane carrying 133 migrants from Mali took off from Tunisia as part of the evacuation of about 300 migrants from this country and the Ivory Coast, after hostile campaigns against illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan countries fueled by a violent speech by President Kais Saied, according to “AFP”.

After a first flight that brought about fifty Guineans back to their country on Wednesday, “145 people are leaving this morning after sleeping in hotels,” Jean-Bedel Gnabli, president of the Association of Ivorians Activists in Tunisia, told AFP in a telephone conversation at the airport before the plane took off.

“A total of 133 people have been evacuated,” including “25 women, nine children and 25 students,” said a Malian diplomat in Tunisia.

Women who took their children with them to the airport said the general climate in Tunisia had become life-threatening.

Source: National News Agency