THE ROUTE OF NAMELESS
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- Abubakar, 22 yo from Gambia, and other compatriots shelter from the scorching sun under the trees in Bab Jebli square in Safx.
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- Since February 2023, after a speech by the President of Tunisia Kais Saied against the sub-Saharan population, Bab Jebli Square, located just outside the walls of the Medina of Sfax, started to fill up with migrants. The peak was in July 2023. Bab Jebli has thus become a kind of shantytown where hundreds of mostly Sub-Saharan migrants shelter from the sun and the night.
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- Zakaria, from Nigeria, lives in Bab Jebli in Sfax. He was taken to the desert on the border between Tunisia and Libya for about a month.
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- Boubacar Barry, 19 yo from Guinea, he left his country at the age of sixteen and arrived in Tunisia by plane. Then his visa expired and he found himself illegal in the country. He was taken to the desert at the border with Libya, from which he managed to escape and arrived in Sfax on foot. He dreams of studying in Europe and becoming president in his country.
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- A group of Sudanese migrants find shelter in ‘Jardin de la mère et de l’enfant” which is located directly opposite Bab Jebli Square in Sfax.
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- A group of migrants shelter from the scorching sun under the trees in Sfax’s Bab Jebli square. Hundreds live in the square where a kind of shantytown has been set up.
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- A view from above Bab Jebli, the square overlooking the medina of Sfax where hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers have been forced to live for months.
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- A palm tree in the “Jardin de la mèere et de l’enfant” used for hanging clothes out to dry in the sun. The plants are used by migrants to shelter from the sun, which in summer is over 40 degrees.
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- A group of Sudanese migrants found refuge along the so-called ‘Sudanese road’ just outside Zarzis in southern Tunisia. It is 10km where many migrants, mostly Sudanese, find refuge after crossing the border into Libya.
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- A group of Sudanese migrants found refuge along the so-called ‘Sudanese road’ just outside Zarzis in southern Tunisia. It is 10km where many migrants, mostly Sudanese, find refuge after crossing the border into Libya.
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- A group of Sudanese migrants found shelter along the so-called ‘Sudanese road’ just outside Zarzis in southern Tunisia. Shortly before, a car of Franco-Tunisian tourists had stopped to bring bread, water and milk. Helping migrants, by any means, is illegal in Tunisia.
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- Fatima, 30 yo from Nigeria, arrived in Tunisia via Libya, where she lived for three years in Tripoli. She has seven children, three of them in Nigeria, one in Italy and three in Tunisia. During the crossing from Libya to Tunisia she lost two of her children, they arrived in Tunisia thanks to other migrants, but now she does not know where they are.
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- A group of ethiopian refugees sit in a café in Medenine. They don’t have a job, but the café owner occasionally gets them to do a little work. All of them were imprisoned and tortured in Libya. They tried to reach Europe from Libya but were intercepted by the Tunisian Coast Guard.
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- Abduimannan Korbo, from Etiopia, arrived in Tunisia by crossing into Libya. In Libya he was imprisoned and tortured. He managed to escape and board a boat to Europe, but was stopped by the Tunisian Coast Guard. He is now in Medenine with a group of young Ethiopians.
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- A group of Ethiopian refugees in front of an informal shelter in Medenine. They have all been in prison in Libya, some still have signs in their bodies of the torture they suffered. Some of them live in this building shed, others in the UNHCR shelter.
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- The shantytown that has been installed under the IOM headquarters since February 2023, after an openly racist speech by the President of Tunisia, Kais Saied. The situation has calmed down compared to a few months ago, but people still live in these makeshift shelters.
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- Mbappè, 24 yo from Cameroon, lives in the shantytowns right below the IOM headquarters. He tried to reach Europe but was stopped by the National Guard and imprisoned for a month after taking his mobile phone and money. He has been in Tunisia for four months, but is worried about his family and plans to return to Cameroon.
