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

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 …

2 dead and several missing after Tunisian migrant boat sinks

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. …

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia and Libya took back 276 sub-Saharan migrants stranded in a desert region along the border between the two countries and brought them to shelters on Thursday. Libya said Wednesday that 27 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were found dead by Libyan authorities in the western desert near the Tunisian border. On the Libyan side, Ahmed Hamza, chairman …

A family’s deadly tale shows chaos at the Tunisian border where Black migrants face discrimination

When Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin regained consciousness after collapsing in the desert, the sun had already set. Nyimbilo believes Matyla and Marie are among more than a dozen Black migrants Libyan border guards say they’ve found dead in the desert border area of the North African nations since Tunisian authorities began conducting mass expulsions in early July. He blasted the influx …

TUNIS, Tunisia — At least 15 migrants have been found dead off Tunisia’s coast and on its border with Algeria this week, authorities said Friday as sub-Saharan Africans face increasing tensions in Tunisia and more and more people seek to leave or transit through the country en route to Europe. Sfax has been the main departure point in Tunisia for …

A police officer has shot dead two people on an annual pilgrimage to a renowned Tunisian synagogue on the island of Djerba as well as two members of the security services before he was killed, the interior ministry said. Four other visitors to the Ghriba Synagogue – Africa’s oldest – and five more security officers were wounded in the attack …

Six dead after attack near synagogue on Tunisia’s Djerba island

Tunisian naval guard shot dead two visitors to Djerba’s Ghriba Synagogue and a security guard before being killed. Six people have been killed after an attack near a synagogue on Tunisia’s Djerba island that draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel during an annual pilgrimage each year. Djerba – a holiday destination off the coast of southern Tunisia, 500km …

14 dead, 54 rescued off Tunisia in migrant boat sinking

Infants among 6 Syrian refugees found dead on boat off Italy

The refugees, including two infants and a child, ‘died of thirst, hunger and severe burns’, the UNHCR has said. Six Syrian refugees, including two infants and a child, have been found dead on a migrant boat that arrived in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, the United Nations refugee agency has said. Six more migrant bodies found off Tunisia Meanwhile, six …

Fire at Tunisian Islamist party HQ leaves 1 dead, 18 injured

Three dead in 'Islamist terrorist attack' in France's Nice; killer identified as 21-year-old Tunisian migrant

Three dead in Nice after knife attack at Notre Dame church, France raises security alert to highest level