African migrants take shelter under the bridge of a motorway on the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria June 28, 2017. Of about 30 migrants he met who were deported from Algeria, about 20 said they had been enslaved, he said. The IOM in Algeria has received three reports this year from friends and relatives of African migrants held hostage and forced to work in the country. [nL8N1R32QD]Amma said he had spoken with more than 75 migrants back from Algeria, the majority of whom described slave-like conditions. In 2016, the IOM surveyed about 6,300 migrants in Niger, most of whom had returned from Algeria and Libya.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 30, 2018 13:49 UTC