Tunisian authorities flew 91 sub-Saharan African migrants out of the country on Tuesday as part of a government-run voluntary return programme that has now involved nearly 5,000 people since its launch last July. Officials say the frequency of departure flights has surged from monthly to near-daily, operating separately from a parallel International Organization for Migration scheme that has facilitated roughly 27,000 returns over three years. The programme has drawn scrutiny from humanitarian groups, who have reported arbitrary arrests of migrants, while the broader context traces back to 2023, when President Kais Saied's inflammatory remarks about sub-Saharan migration sparked racially motivated attacks and left tens of thousands of migrants displaced across Tunisia.