CONGOLESE-BORN French rapper Maitre Gims has cancelled a concert in Tunisia that was scheduled for 11 August.
In an Instagram story, the rapper cited the mistreatment of migrants for the cancellation saying: “Children, women, men expelled from Tunisia to Libya, live in inhumane conditions. I cannot maintain my visit to Tunisia.”
Libyan guards recently rescued dozens of sub-Saharan migrants in a desert area on the border between the two countries
They said they had been dumped there from Tunisia without water, food or shelter.
Tunisia has become the main departure point for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
In recent months, black migrants in Tunisia have faced violent attacks due to an increasingly hostile environment.
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has previously accused migrants of partaking in a “plot” to change the country’s demographic profile, blaming “traitors who are working for foreign countries”. He later denied being racist.
