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Hundreds of migrants in Tunisia were caught in a wave of detentions and expulsions to Libya in the second half of last year, according to the briefing, dated Jan. 23.
The vessels were carrying Africans from sub-Saharan countries, Tunisia TV reported. Some 83 people were rescued three miles off Alataya in Tunisia’s Kerkennah Islands, where the boats sank, it said.
TUNIS (Reuters) -Undocumented sub-Saharan African migrants in Tunisia received three billion dinars (about $1 billion) in remittances from their countries during the first half of 2023, an ...
Migrants aboard an inflatable vessel before their rescue co-ordinated by USS Carney near Spain in February 2013. This article is a list of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea leading up to and resulting from the European migrant crisis with recent migration also related to developments such as the Arab Spring protests (2010–2012), civil wars in Syria (since 2011) and Libya ...
On 12 April 2023, 33 migrants died and 76 people were rescued after a migrant boat sank off Tunisia's shores off the city of Sfax. [ 2 ] On 18 April 2023, at least 15 migrants were missing and four others were rescued after a boat heading for Italy sank from the coast of Kerkennah.
In 2011, the rebellions in Tunisia and Libya resulted in an increase in the rate of people moving to Lampedusa. [citation needed] By May 2011, more than 35,000 migrants had arrived on the island from Tunisia and Libya. [8] By the end of August, 48,000 had arrived. [9] Most were young males in their 20s and 30s. [10]
Of the 76,325 migrant arrivals in Italy so far this year until last Sunday, 44,151 took the sea route from Tunisia compared to 28,842 leaving from Libya, according to the U.N. High Commissioner ...
Tunisia's public prosecutor on Tuesday detained Saadia Mosbah, a prominent activist and head of a nongovernmental group that defends the rights of migrants, human rights groups said, hours after ...