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HRW urges Tunisia to suspend expulsions of African refugees

Refugees wait at Sfax port in Tunisia on April 26, 2023, after being stopped by the Tunisian coastguard at sea as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy [File: Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters]

A global human rights group has urged Tunisia to stop its expulsion of sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants and for humanitarian services to be provided to those languishing at the North African country’s border with Libya.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) made the statement on Thursday after hundreds of people were rounded up this week from the coastal city of Sfax and driven to Ben Guerdane, a militarised Tunisia-Libya border zone.

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