The Benghazi Chamber of Commerce reported that 28 Tunisian companies working in 50 sectors made presentations at Tuesday’s Libyan-Tunisian Trade Forum.
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The Benghazi Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture today announced the holding of the Libyan-Tunisian Trade Forum in the city of Benghazi on 13 February.
The bodies of 13 Sudanese migrants have been recovered and 27 others are missing after a boat sank on Wednesday off the coast of Tunisia having set off from Sfax, a Tunisian judicial official said on Thursday.
The Tunisian National Guard said on Tuesday that about 40 Tunisian migrants were missing after sailing in a boat toward the coast of Italy last week.
Three groups of migrants and refugees respectively numbering 68, 15 and 54 people (137 in total) landed on Lampedusa, Italy between midnight and dawn on Wednesday morning, Italian ANSA reported.
A Libyan delegation from the Benghazi Chamber of Commerce and Industry underlined, during a meeting with representatives of the Tunisian Chamber of Commerce, the importance of supporting the Tunisian economic fabric in the eastern regions of Libya, and providing investment opportunities to Tunisian economic actors in the sectors of industry, agriculture, commerce and hospital institutions.
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.
The United Nations Refugee Agency has announced that from the beginning of January to September 24, 2023, more than 2,500 refugees on their way through the Mediterranean Sea have either lost their lives or remain missing.
At least two migrants including a baby died when their bank sank Saturday soon after leaving the coast of Tunisia, the coastguard said.
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.