2023-07-31 09:56:13
While a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Tunisia on the Libyan border, the singer has decided to cancel his scheduled performance in Djerba in ten days.
The show that Gims was to give in Tunisia on August 11 will not take place. The French singer announced in an Instagram story on Sunday that he will not participate in the Urban Music Fest in Djerba, where he was expected, to protest against the country’s treatment of migrants.
“Children, women, men, expelled from Tunisia to Libya, live in inhuman conditions”, denounces the interpreter of Bella.
“I cannot maintain my visit to Tunisia,” he adds. “I don’t know where the solutions are. But this extreme distress is unbearable…”
The UN alerted last Thursday to the situation of hundreds of African refugees and migrants stranded for several weeks in disastrous conditions near Tunisia’s borders with Libya and Algeria.
“Critical humanitarian aid”
According to AFP, many of these African migrants were driven out of the Tunisian city of Sfax (center-east), the main point of departure for illegal emigration to Europe, following clashes that cost their lives. to a Tunisian on July 3.
According to NGOs, these people were transported and abandoned in inhospitable areas near Libya (east) and Algeria (west). “These migrants are stuck in the desert, facing extreme heat and without access to shelter, food or water,” warn IOM and UNHCR, the UN refugee agencies. and migrants, in a joint statement. They note that there are reports of deaths.
“There is an urgent need to provide crucial and vital humanitarian aid while waiting for human solutions to be found”, write the two UN agencies.
A total of 1,200 Africans have been “deported” since the beginning of July by the Tunisian police to border areas with Libya and Algeria, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch.
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