On Tuesday March 7, 2023 at 10 a.m., a press conference was held at AME headquarters. The conference focused on the situation of our migrant compatriots in Tunisia and was an opportunity to call on the international community and the African Union to strengthen measures to protect migrants wherever they are and regardless of their status.
AME members spoke about the situation of sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia following the Tunisian President’s shocking speech on February 21, 2023.
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Frontex (European Border and Coast Guard Agency), armed with drones and other police equipment, will soon be on our doorstep, as it plans to position itself on the Atlantic and Sahara routes through Senegal and Mauritania, on the basis of preventing irregular migration. On August 18, 2022, the AME held a press conference to outline the stakes of an ongoing status agreement between the EU and Senegal/Mauritania which would significantly expand Frontex’s presence in our neighboring countries, (…)

Conflicts in northern and central Mali continue to provoke massive population displacements, with inhabitants forced to abandon their homes to seek refuge in localities where the security situation appears more stable. There are approximately 370,000 displaced people in Mali, including more than 4000 in Bamako, with many of them living in informal sites without access to sanitation, security, or safe housing.
In July 2022, the Malian Association for Deportees held three “Citizens’ (…)

Systemic racism and discrimination continue to infect countries and societies around the world suffering from the intensifying crisis of imperialism, including the discrimination and exclusionary impacts on migrants and refugees. The current uprisings around the world against the murders of black people in the U.S. such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery by both state forces and racist vigilantes demonstrate the persisting and systemic problem of racism in countries like the (…)

Following reports of the sinking of a boat of migrants on July 28, 2014 off the coast of Libya, the AME has initiated a series of activities to inform the public and to call on the government to act on these issues.
On Saturday, August 2, the AME received the solicitation of the Association of Migrants from the Region of Kayes (AMRK) to pool resources and knowledge in order to work together on communicating the concerns of the families of those missing and to jointly make recommendations. (…)

After Ceuta and Melilla and other dramas of emigration such as Lampedusa, Mali has just suffered a heavy loss when a boat of immigrants seeking a better life in Europe sunk off the coast of Libya on July 28, 2014. Most of the Malians on board came from the Kayes region (a region of emigration par excellence), and many were from the villages in the northern circle of Bafoulabé (Selinkegny, Madalaya, Kania, Djungo), some of Mali’s poorest areas.
Following this tragic event, the Malian (…)

As part of the Lounja Tounkaranke Project, (“Lounja” means “committee” in Arabic; “Tounkaranke” means migrant or adventurer in the Soninke language), a regional campaign advocating for free circulation within ECOWAS took place simultaneously in Niger, Senegal, Mali, and the Ivory Coast on Saturday January 25, 2014. Loujna Tounakaranke brings together organizations from French, North African, and West African civil society for the protection of migrant rights. An international week of action (…)

On the occasion of the latest boat disaster in front of Lampedusa, the Malian Association for Deportees (AME) has published a declaration together with the Malian leage for human rights an Amnesty International/Mali.
On the occasion of the latest boat disaster in front of Lampedusa the Malian Association for Deportees (AME) has published a declaration together with the Malian leage for human rights an Amnesty International/Mali (see below as PDF). The core concerns are the following: We (…)

The migratory question has become omnipresent in European news and in the relationships between European Union countries and those of migrants’ origin. Beyond the gripping images of dozens of shipwrecks on the Spanish, Italian, and Greek beaches and by the rise of unlucky applicants crammed in the temporary retention centers on the outskirts of airports and ports, today’s migrations question the capacity of integration into our societies and the political choices of our elected officials. It (…)