People who sought route to Europe before fighting erupted in Khartoum have faced police brutality, torture and homelessness
“There are no easy escape routes right now,” said Michelle D’Arcy, the Sudan country director for the Norwegian People’s Aid organisation. “The route they might choose depends on their location, connection and privilege as it is costing more and more to leave the country every day.”
Khaled, who arrived in Libya in 2019 at the age of 14, made three failed attempts to reach Europe from there. “I tried to reach Europe by sea from Zawiya for the last time in January 2022,” he said. “But that time we were stopped even before boarding the boat.”“There were 400 of us in that prison … If we didn’t have money, we would never have left,” he says.
Since February, when the Tunisian president, Kais Saied, made a racist speech in which he claimed that irregular migration from other parts of Africa was part of an international plot to change Tunisia’s character, black immigrants in Tunisia have been living in increasing danger. Soon after the speech, many were evicted from their homes, and entire neighbourhoods were raided.
“They took me to the police centre of Buhayra together with nine other people and tortured us with electric cables,” Khaled said. “The Tunisian police told us, ‘Why don’t you cross the sea and go to Italy?’”
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