Tunis: Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday that Tunisia should halt the mass expulsion of sub-Saharan African migrants and immediately allow those who were relocated to a perilous section of the Tunisia-Libya border to access humanitarian aid.

According to a lawmaker and a rights organisation in Tunisia, hundreds of the migrants have been sent to a barren area near the border. However, witnesses claim that after days of violence, dozens more migrants have been put on trains headed elsewhere.

One Tunisian was killed during unrest that lasted a week in the port of Sfax between migrants and locals. Locals complained about the disorderly behaviour of immigrants, and immigrants complained about being harassed racially..

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An unprecedented migration crisis has arisen in Tunisia as thousands of undocumented migrants have descended on Sfax in recent months with the intention of boarding boats operated by human traffickers bound for Europe.
Ivorian, Cameroonian, Malian, Guinean, Chadian, Sudanese, Senegalese, and 29 children and three pregnant women were among the people expelled, according to HRW.

"Collective expulsions violate international law," said Lauren Seibert, a researcher at HRW who specialises in refugee and migrant rights. "Not only is it unconscionable to abuse people and abandon them in the desert, but it is also unethical to use force against them."

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Requests for comment from the interior ministry of Tunisia were not answered.
The International Organisation for Migration in Libya reported that despite the obstacles to access, it was still able to offer some migrants emergency medical care.

Numerous other African migrants are sleeping in the street close to the Lakhmi Mosque in Sfax while the authorities transferred hundreds near the Libyan border, according to witnesses.

Videos showed some locals feeding and watering them.

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This year has seen a spike in migration from Tunisia in north Africa across the Mediterranean as a result of Tunis's crackdown on migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who were living in the country illegally and reports of racist attacks.

Europe is putting pressure on Tunisia to stop a large number of migrants from leaving its coasts. However, according to President Kais Saied, Tunisia will not act as a border guard and will not permit the settlement of immigrants.