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When a beloved football club from Chebba, Tunisia was suspended from the country’s Premier League in October 2020, protests broke out around the city and its port.

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Thousands of Tunisian football fans say they will migrate to Italy after their beloved club’s suspension

A fire broke out on a canoe off the coast of Senegal on October 23. (Screengrab from social media)

Deadly boat fire highlights the dangerous migration route from Senegal to the Canary Islands

Several people in Algeria reached out to our team at FRANCE 24 Observers to let us know that there had been a new wave of arrests in Oran and that some migrants had been deported to Niger. (These are screengrabs and images sent to the Observers.)

Algerian authorities crack down on migrants, deporting many to Niger

Left: Rioters in Malmo, Sweden on Aug. 28. Center: Local Mustafa Alshabi presents flowers to police officers the day after the riots. Right: In the Rosengard neighbourhood, residents clean up the streets after the riots dispersed.

After riots over Koran burning, Swedish neighbourhood responds with flowers and community action

The photo on the left shows a group called Ukhavihera distributing food in Pemba. The photo on the right shows an organization called the Islamic Community of Mozambique (known by the acronym CIMO) handing out food in the district of Quissanga. Photos: Geo

Investigation: The rising number of Mozambique’s internally displaced people (2/2)

Volunteers at Byrd Camp near Arivaca, Arizona managed to capture just a few images of the July 31, 2020 Border Patrol raid before agents seized their cellphones.

US Border Patrol raids humanitarian aid camp, seizing phones and arresting migrants

These photos and videos were captured by residents of a French centre for migrants run by Adoma in April and May 2020.

France’s overcrowded centres for migrant workers turn deadly during pandemic

Screengrabs of videos showing incidents that occurred in the Turkish cities of Samsun and Kahramanmaras.

Wave of violence breaks out against Syrians in Turkey

In amateur videos taken by demonstrators on 25 February, riot police protect the future construction site of the detention centre.

'A giant prison for migrants': Lesbos residents fight the construction of a new detention centre

Screengrabs of a video posted on social media in Cameroon that shows a man being deported from Turkey wrapped in plastic film. The woman on the right is wearing the uniform of a Turkish Airlines flight attendant.

‘They wrapped me up like a package’: A Cameroonian’s harrowing deportation from Turkey

The Guinean man who created a film about migration; yoga for refugees in Lebanon; an anti-migrant militia in the United States.

Our Observers' top stories on migration in 2019

Residents from poorer neighbourhoods in Assam’s Barpeta district were asked in August to attend a hearing 400 kilometres away to prove their citizenship. Many had never traveled that far. Photo: Rehna Sultana

Activists help 2 million Assam residents fight to keep Indian citizenship

Trapped in southern Mexico, hundreds of African migrants protest for right to continue their journey north.

African migrants trapped in Mexico protest for right to travel to USA

New Comienzos, a group based in Mexico City, helps deportees settle into their new lives in Mexico. (New Comienzos/Facebook)

Former deportees in Mexico City help new arrivals readapt

A group of men ransacked Syrian-owned businesses in the Ikitelli neighborhood in Istanbul on June 29, 2019.

Rumor about a sexual assault sparks a wave of violence against Syrians in Turkey

This photo has been shared more than 24,000 times since January 23, 2019. Turns out, it’s a fake.

Were Hungarian authorities really using pigs to deter Muslims at the border?

Photo shared by our Observer.

Dozens of Ethiopians drown on forgotten migrant route off shores of Djibouti

This photo of Palestinian migrants packed into a Thai police van has been widely shared on Facebook by Palestinian NGOs over the last few weeks.

Palestinian and Syrian migrants swept up in wave of arrests in Thailand

Screen capture of a video showing migrants detained in the underground car park of the Tangier police station, waiting to be deported.

Migrants crammed into 'inhumane' Moroccan police car parks

Screengrabs of a video filmed by a group of Nigerian migrants while they were detained in Libya.

Migrants escape detention in Libya after WhatsApp appeal

Online, many people claimed that the media had doctored or misused these images in order to stir up sympathy for migrants. (The image on the left is a photo while the other images are screengrabs from a video).

No, journalists did not stage these images to draw sympathy for migrants

A group of migrants held a rare protest in Libya (screengrab from a video posted to Facebook on August 12).

'Help us get out of this hell!': Migrants hold rare protest in Libya

Screen grab of a video sent by "L'Auberge des migrants" showing a riot police officer shoving a volunteer who had been filming the police.

Calais NGOs accuse police of intimidating volunteers

On the left, migrants en route to Yemen who were intercepted by Djibouti coastguards. On the right, a man lying in the street in Tadjourah, suffering from cholera or acute diarrhoea. Photos published on Facebook.

Ethiopian migrants risk torture and cholera on way to Yemen

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