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.
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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 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).
Last Thursday, at the Ras Jedir border crossing between Libya and Tunisia, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transport for Ministerial Affairs, Wissam Khalifa Al-Idrisi, held a meeting to follow up on the progress of work at the border crossing.
Tunisia has received four women and five children from the Libyan authorities on Friday. They are the wives and children…
The Italian authorities continue the policy of assigning distant ports to NGO rescue vessels for the disembarkation of survivors. Malta failed to rescue more than 7,000 people in distress in the country’s SAR zone in 2022 and reports of non-response tactics continue to mount. EU partners, Tunisia and Libya continue their pull back operations and abuse of migrants, according to European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE).
A cooperation agreement on the mobility of doctors will be shortly signed by Tunisia and Libya, the Tunisian Medical Association (French: CNOM) said.