Forces of the Libyan Border Guard have found six unidentified bodies of illegal migrants of sub-Saharan nationality near the border with Tunisia, reports the interior ministry of the Government of National Unity on Sunday.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), expressed their deep concern for the safety and well-being of hundreds of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Tunisia, “who remain stranded in dire conditions following their removal to remote and desolate areas near the country’s borders with Libya and Algeria.”
Almost 800 irregular migrants drowned off Tunisia in the first half of this year as they tried to reach Europe by boat, a National Guard spokesman told AFP Thursday.
TUNIS – The humanitarian crisis at the Tunisia-Libya border has intensified in recent weeks, with the discovery of over 25…
Five bodies of sub-Saharan migrants have been recovered in a desolate area near the border between Libya and Tunisia, Libya’s interior ministry said in a statement on Monday.
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 Libyan Red Crescent, International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNICEF provided yesterday life-saving humanitarian relief for 400 stranded migrants at the Libyan-Tunisian border, IOM said today.
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.
The Libyan border guards in charge of securing the Libyan-Tunisian borders have managed to find 14 migrants who were lost in the desert near the Tunisian border, reports the Interior Ministry of the Libyan Government of Unity (GUN).