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At least 27 people killed, dozens rescued after two shipwrecks off Tunisia

All the victims and those rescued were from sub-Saharan African countries, says director of civil protection in Sfax. At least 27 people including women and children have died and 83 others were rescued after two boats capsized off Tunisia, the country’s National Guard has said. The two makeshift boats set sail “on the night of December 31 to January 1,” …

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8 months ago

Tunisia: The migration trap

Al Jazeera

Refugees and migrants from across Africa are becoming stranded, unable to return and persecuted by authorities. pic.twitter.com/LSVmlvvnez — Refugees In Libya May 4, 2024 On Monday, Tunisia’s President Kais Saied confirmed the expulsion to the National Security Council, blaming unnamed “others” for the migration crisis before lambasting “traitors” who had allowed them to enter Tunisia. Public figures, including Member of …

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11 months ago

13 people are dead and 27 missing after a boat carrying Sudanese migrants to Europe sank

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — At least 13 Sudanese migrants died and 27 others are believed missing after their small metal boat sank Thursday off the Tunisian coast as they sought to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe, according to local authorities. The Tunisian coast guard was able to rescue just two people from the capsized boat 14 kilometers off the coast …

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11 months ago

At least 13 Sudanese asylum seekers killed after boat capsizes off Tunisia

Al Jazeera

Officials said an investigation was launched as the search was ongoing for 27 missing people. At least 13 Sudanese asylum seekers have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia. A Tunisian judicial official said on Thursday that 27 people were still missing after their boat sank on Wednesday, having set off from Jebiniana, a town near the …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Protests erupt in Tunisian town as search continues for 37 missing migrants

Al Jazeera

Residents in the town of El Hancha are waiting to hear news of loved ones who disappeared crossing the Mediterranean. Frustrated by the lack of news since the boat’s disappearance, the families of the missing undocumented migrants erected roadblocks and burned tyres around the village yesterday, only withdrawing when the government authorities assured the public that search efforts would continue. …

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1 year ago

Tunisian group accuses authorities of mass expulsions of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Migration activists are sounding the alarm this week about mass expulsions and arbitrary arrests in Tunisia, where authorities are seeing more migrants arrive for attempted Mediterranean crossings from the North African nation to Europe. The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights on Monday accused the government of waging a campaign of repression against migrants at the …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Near Sfax, refugees scramble after violent clashes with Tunisia police

Al Jazeera

As police and the national guard scour nearby Al Amra for a missing gun and ammunition, refugees are displaced again. Sfax, Tunisia – On the outskirts of Tunisia’s second-largest city and the destination point for thousands of sub-Saharan African refugees hoping to get to Europe, 15-year-old Osman Bah from Guinea points to his sleeping quarters. Violence against Black people had …

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1 year, 1 month ago

‘I wake up in pain’: Refugees struggle in Tunisian winter

Al Jazeera

For refugees in Tunis facing abuse from police while aid is blocked, the cold is their greatest enemy now. Some are waiting for a “refugee card” – a temporary UNHCR registration document valid for one year showing a person’s legal status as a refugee – others are waiting for the calm seas that will make their passage between Tunisia and …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Europe frets over migration; Tunisia moves refugees to departure points

Al Jazeera

Pact that promised Tunisia financial support in return for stopping migration is being debated in Europe. Al Amra, Tunisia – As European leaders met in Italy at the weekend to discuss the “migration crisis” on Lampedusa and how to limit arrivals, Tunisian police rounded up thousands of Black people from Sfax and bussed them to one of the principal departure …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Migrant boat sinks off Tunisian coast, leaving 5 dead and 7 missing

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — A migrant boat sank off Tunisia’s port city of Sfax, leaving five people dead and seven others missing, officials said Tuesday. Twenty-three migrants were rescued out of 35 people on board, most of them Tunisians and a “small number of sub-Saharan nationals,” said Faouzi Masmoudi, a Sfax court spokesperson. The Sfax court opened an investigation to determine …

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1 year, 4 months ago

2 dead and several missing after Tunisian migrant boat sinks

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — An infant and a 20-year-old man were found dead Saturday morning after a migrant boat sank off the coast of Tunisia, near the southeastern port of Gabès, the country’s coast guards reported. According to a statement from the National Guard, the boat, which was carrying 20 Tunisian migrants, sank just 120 meters from the beaches of Gabès. …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘You have to do it’: Refugees in Tunisia undeterred by Lampedusa shipwreck

Al Jazeera

Despite deaths at sea, refugees in the port of Sfax are still adamant about trying to reach Europe by boat. “They took my phone and my passport.” Many people from sub-Saharan African countries who were both living in Sfax and planning to sail for Europe were evicted from their homes and sacked from their jobs in July when the death …

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1 year, 5 months ago

41 migrants dead in shipwreck off coast of Italy, survivors say

The Independent

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1 year, 5 months ago

41 dead in migrant shipwreck according to 4 survivors who set off from Tunisia

Associated Press

ROME — Forty-one people are believed dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Tunisia in rough seas, the Italian Red Cross and rescue groups reported, citing four survivors who were rescued and brought to land Wednesday. The Red Cross said in a statement that the four survived using inner tubes and managed to climb onto another empty vessel nearby, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The bodies of 8 migrants have been found off Tunisia after their boats sank

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Eight bodies of migrants have been recovered over the past two days off the coast of the Tunisian port city of Sfax after their boats sank trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea toward Europe, according to Sfax court’s spokesperson. On Thursday, National Guard spokesperson Houssameddine Jbabli reported that four bodies had been recovered by the coastguard off …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Tunisian minister concedes ‘small groups’ of migrants were pushed back into desert no man’s land

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s interior minister conceded that small groups of sub-Saharan migrants trying to enter the country are pushed back into the desert border areas with Libya and Algeria, but labeled as “false allegations” claims by the U.N., humanitarian groups and migrants themselves of mistreatment. In an interview with The Associated Press Wednesday, Kamel Fekih said that while there …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Migrants face misery in Tunisia. Rights activists fear that the EU deal will make things even worse

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Migrants in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax who are aiming to make Europe their new home are now sharing the burden and the blame for escalating tensions deeply tinged with racism, amid the fears of European leaders who are trying to stanch the numbers of people arriving at their shores. President Kais Saied, Tunisia’s increasingly authoritarian leader, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Black refugees stranded in Tunisian desert witness death, misery

Al Jazeera

About 70 refugees, including women and children, are stuck in a ten-metre buffer zone they call ‘point zero’. These refugees were rounded up by Tunisian security forces in the coastal city of Sfax and brought here last week – a remote buffer zone at Tunisia’s border with Libya, with no access to healthcare or any type of humanitarian support. “Not …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Under pressure, Tunisia takes back hundreds of migrants trapped in a border zone with Libya

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — At least 500 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been transferred back to Tunisia after being pushed into a dangerous no-man’s-land on the Libyan border and trapped for a week there without access to basic necessities, aid agencies said Tuesday. Tunisian Red Crescent spokesperson Mounir Ksiksi said Tuesday that about 500 people from sub-Saharan Africa who had been …

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1 year, 6 months ago

So thirsty they drank seawater: The refugees Tunisia pushed out

Al Jazeera

More than 1,000 people were bussed to the borders with Libya, Algeria – and left with no food, water, shelter or way out. Tunis, Tunisia – Hundreds of Black men, women and children forcibly expelled from the port city of Sfax remain trapped in the heavily secured “no man’s land” between Libya and Tunisia. “The Tunisian authorities, who have contributed …

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1 year, 6 months ago

HRW urges Tunisia to suspend expulsions of African refugees

Al Jazeera

Hundreds of people were rounded up from Sfax and driven to the militarised Tunisia-Libya border zone this week. A global human rights group has urged Tunisia to stop its expulsion of sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants and for humanitarian services to be provided to those languishing at the North African country’s border with Libya. “Not only is it unconscionable to …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Mass expulsions and mistreatment of migrants reported in Tunisia as tensions spike in port city

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tensions spiked dangerously in a Tunisian port city this week after three migrants were detained in the death of a local man, and there were reports of retaliation against Black foreigners and accounts of mass expulsions and alleged assaults by security forces. Sfax, on Tunisia’s eastern coast, is a main departure point for migrants and refugees planning …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Africans attacked, flee Sfax, as Tunisia racial tensions explode

Al Jazeera

Sfax, Tunisia – Fear mixes with resignation at Sfax’s louage station, the marshalling point for the shared taxis that connect Tunisia. The death of the man on Monday during skirmishes with the city’s Black migrants looks to have ignited the region’s long-smouldering touchpaper, giving rise to clashes between residents and migrants that, on Tuesday morning, one onlooker described as “like …

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1 year, 7 months ago

EU offers Tunisia aid package, seeks tighter border control

Al Jazeera

The EU is considering a major financial package for the cash-strapped nation amid a growing refugee and migrant crisis. The European Union is considering offering Tunisia some 900 million euros to support its economy, plus an immediate 150 million euros in budget support once a “necessary agreement is found”, according to European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen. Along with …

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At least 27 people killed, dozens rescued after two shipwrecks off Tunisia

Tunisia: The migration trap

13 people are dead and 27 missing after a boat carrying Sudanese migrants to Europe sank

At least 13 Sudanese asylum seekers killed after boat capsizes off Tunisia

Protests erupt in Tunisian town as search continues for 37 missing migrants

Tunisian group accuses authorities of mass expulsions of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa

Near Sfax, refugees scramble after violent clashes with Tunisia police

‘I wake up in pain’: Refugees struggle in Tunisian winter

Europe frets over migration; Tunisia moves refugees to departure points

Migrant boat sinks off Tunisian coast, leaving 5 dead and 7 missing

2 dead and several missing after Tunisian migrant boat sinks

‘You have to do it’: Refugees in Tunisia undeterred by Lampedusa shipwreck

41 migrants dead in shipwreck off coast of Italy, survivors say

41 dead in migrant shipwreck according to 4 survivors who set off from Tunisia

The bodies of 8 migrants have been found off Tunisia after their boats sank

Tunisian minister concedes ‘small groups’ of migrants were pushed back into desert no man’s land

Migrants face misery in Tunisia. Rights activists fear that the EU deal will make things even worse

Black refugees stranded in Tunisian desert witness death, misery

Under pressure, Tunisia takes back hundreds of migrants trapped in a border zone with Libya

So thirsty they drank seawater: The refugees Tunisia pushed out

HRW urges Tunisia to suspend expulsions of African refugees

Mass expulsions and mistreatment of migrants reported in Tunisia as tensions spike in port city

Africans attacked, flee Sfax, as Tunisia racial tensions explode

EU offers Tunisia aid package, seeks tighter border control