Black Africans don’t feel safe in Tunisia because they have become a “target” because of their skin colour, a student from sub-Saharan Africa in Tunisia tells the BBC’s Africa Daily programme.
A woman, who only wanted to be identified as Mary, says that some people’s homes have been “set on fire”, others “beaten up,” and some have received verbal insults.
There are even taxi drivers who are refusing to drive black Africans, Mary continues.
Mary says the rise in racism comes after President Kais Saied last week said that illegal migration was a “plot” to cause demographic change in Tunisia, and accused “illegal hordes” of being behind rising crime.
Dozens of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have since been detained, as Ivory Coast and Guinea say they are sending specially charted planes to bring back their nationals.
– BBC News
Arabs do not like Africans. They are part of Africa because of the geographical position we share with them. Just stay in your poor Sub saharan Africa countries.. The African Union is a fake organisation which won’t defend you as also fear the Arabs skin. They won’t do anything mark my words.
Where’s the AU? Busy having a banquet in our name and it seems they do not want to be disturbed. As it happens, Mary is actually a Zambian student.