Tunisian parliament gets defensive after Black refugee treatment criticism

Libyan border guards have found dozens of groups of women, children and families stranded in scorching summer temperatures without water since June [File: Yousef Murad/AP Photo]

Tunis, Tunisia – The image of Ivorian woman Fati Dosso and her six-year-old daughter Marie, found dead in the Libyan desert from apparent dehydration after being expelled from Tunisia, continues to prove problematic for the European Commission and Tunisia’s President Kais Saied.

Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding the two signed with each other in mid-July, Tunisia will receive 105 million euros ($115m) to support five pillars of the “new chapter in relations between the European Union and Tunisia”, one of which is migration.