Sub-Saharan migrants living in Tunisia have been the target of a surge in racist attacks, following a February 21 speech by President Kais Said denouncing what he called « hordes of illegal immigrants ». Since then, many migrants have been urgently trying to return to their countries of origin. The Ivory Coast in particular has organised a repatriation of its citizens, who have had to pack up their lives and leave with just a few days’ notice. Our correspondents in Tunis and Abidjan followed some of them, from their hasty departure to their arrival in a country that some of them had left long ago.
