Algeria bars Syrians from entering via southern border, official says

Disir

Platinum Member
Sep 30, 2011
28,003
9,607
910
Algeria has barred all Syrians from entering the country via its southern border with Mali and Niger, as part of what a senior Algerian official said is an attempt to keep out members of defeated Syrian rebel groups.

Hassen Kacimi, the official in charge of migration policy at Algeria's interior ministry, told Reuters news agency on Wednesday that many Syrians seeking to enter Algeria through the southern border were suspected to be Islamist militants and were not welcome.

"We have hosted 50,000 Syrians in the past few years for humanitarian reasons," Kacimi said, alluding to refugees from Syria's civil war, "but we cannot accept members of armed groups fleeing from Syria when it comes to our security."

He said about 100 Syrians had reached the southern border with the help of local armed escorts in recent weeks, but they were intercepted and expelled shortly after they entered Algeria.

Kacimi said these Syrians had transited through Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan and Niger or Mali using fake Sudanese passports.
Algeria bars Syrians from entering via southern border, official says

I wouldn't let them in either.
 

Forum List

Back
Top