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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Townsend

Europe overhauls funding to Tunisia after Guardian exposes migrant abuse

A group of people on stony ground by the sea, many of whom are in distress
African migrants at Libya’s border with Tunisia in Ras Ajdir. Photograph: Hamza Turkia/Xinhua/Alamy

The European Commission is fundamentally overhauling how it makes payments to Tunisia after a Guardian investigation exposed myriad abuses by EU-funded security forces, including widespread sexual violence against migrants.

Officials are drawing up “concrete” conditions to ensure that future European payments to Tunis can go ahead only if human rights have not been violated.

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