More than 1,300 irregular migrants died at sea or went missing trying to reach Europe from Tunisia in 2023, a Tunisian rights group said on Tuesday.
Islem Ghaarbi, a migration expert at the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights, told a press conference that “1,313 people died or disappeared off the Tunisian coast, a figure never reached in Tunisia”.
Ghaarbi said at least two thirds of the migrants came from sub-Saharan Africa.