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EU-backed migrant crackdowns in Mauritania fuel fear and deportations

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EU-backed migrant crackdowns in Mauritania fuel fear and deportations

EU-backed migrant crackdowns in Mauritania fuel fear and deportations

Thousands of migrants in Mauritania who once relied on daily street work to survive have been rounded up, detained in poor conditions and deported to remote borders under an EU-backed effort to halt Atlantic migration routes to Europe. Al Jazeera’s Shola Lawal reports from Nouakchott where those who remain say they are too afraid to step outside.

Originally reported by Al Jazeera