Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of four people believed to be African migrants, including a pregnant woman, off the coast of Kerkennah Island in the Mediterranean, the regional prosecutor said Monday.
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A Tunisian rights group condemned Sunday a “repressive and inhumane” government decision to deport a group of migrants who had been evacuated from a defunct refugee camp, AFP reported.
Two ships of the Tunisian Navy intervened on Monday to prevent the seizure of two Tunisian fishing boats by the Libyan Coast Guard accused of fishing in Libyan waters, Italian news agency Nova reports.
The co-chairs of the Security Working Group (SWG) for Libya, represented by the African Union, France, Italy, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) held a meeting on Thursday in Tunis to discuss the security situation in the country.
U.N. Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily held talks on Tuesday with Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi to discuss “ways to encourage Libyan political and security actors to come together in Libya and agree on a way out of the crisis by holding elections as soon as possible,” according to the U.N. envoy.
The Government of National Unity is in “full readiness” to national elections in Libya, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh told U.N. Special Envoy Abdoulaye Bathily during a meeting in Tunis today.
The spokesman of the Government of National Unity of Libya, Mohamed Hammouda, has denied the rumors that Libya has deposited a billion dollars in the Tunisian central bank.
Dbeibah to the Tunisian President: I came to Tunisia to facilitate the procedures of Libyan citizens and businessmen The outgoing…
The Libyan outgoing Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh held Wednesday in Tunis a bilateral meeting with the Tunisian Prime Minister, Najlaa Boudin, “to discuss bilateral relations and ways to take measures that enhance the common interest between the two countries,” according to Dbeibeh’s Media Office.
Tunisian customs units at the Ras Jedir crossing on the border between Tunisia and Libya have managed to thwart an attempt to smuggle 21.5 tons of agricultural material subsidized by the unknown state inside a truck with a foreign license plate, Tunisian customs authorities reported in a press release.