Algeria has decided to host a group of Syrian nationals, including a pregnant woman and children, who have been stranded since 17 April in Figuieg, Morocco, in a statement to the APS on Thursday. Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdelaziz Benali Cherif.
“The representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Hamdi Boukhari, was received today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he was informed of the decision of the highest Algerian authorities to host, on a humanitarian basis, On its territory, the group of Syrian nationals, including a pregnant woman and children, who is blocked since April 17 in Figuieg in Moroccan territory, “said the same source.
According to the Foreign Ministry spokesman, “this exceptional humanitarian gesture that Algeria consents takes account of the particularly difficult situation in which this group is found and comes from the will of Algeria to put an end to this sacred month Ramadhan by welcoming the members of this group of Syrian migrants on their territory, providing them with accommodation, providing them with the necessary care and allowing them, if they so wish, to join other members of their families in Family reunification in other countries “.
Noting that Algeria “has taken this step as a duty of solidarity with the brotherly people of Syria in the ordeal that it is going through,” Mr Benali Cherif added that “it is this same duty of solidarity that has led to the” Algeria to welcome on its soil, since the beginning of the crisis affecting this sister country, more than forty thousand Syrians who have benefited from a device enabling them to enjoy facilities in terms of stay, free movement, schooling, Access to medical care, housing and the pursuit of commercial activities “.
