Tunisia begins evacuating migrant camps – Middle East Monitor

Tunisian authorities dismantled temporary migrant camps in olive groves in the central eastern parts of the country yesterday, amid a rise in the number of “voluntary” returns of migrants to their home countries.

Units of the National Guard set fire to tents in the camps, which migrants from sub-Saharan African countries had erected.

Houssem Eddine Jebabli, spokesperson for the National Guard, stated that around 2,500 undocumented individuals were forced to…