Close to 70,000 migrants were intercepted trying to cross the Mediterranean from Tunisia to Italy this year, more than double the 2022 figure, the Tunisian National Guard told AFP on Saturday.
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The Tunisian Air Force has received the first batch of eight Beechcraft T-6C Texan II trainer airplanes from the United States, according to AFRICOM.
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Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and Tunisian President Kais Saied have agreed to organize a meeting between the interior ministers of both countries to discuss border security, as per a statement by Dbeibeh’s media office.
The EU has signed off on a €1bn (£860m) deal with Tunisia to help stem irregular migration, as the president of the north African country denounced those who offer migrants “sympathy without respect” for their goal to have equity in life.
At least 15 migrants have been found dead off Tunisia’s coast and on its border with Algeria this week, authorities said on Friday. The deaths come 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.
Tunisian coast guards recovered a total of 31 bodies of migrants in the last few hours, including two minors, who died in various shipwrecks on the Central Mediterranean route to Europe and were “dragged by the waves” to the shore.