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Country’s interior minister has called images of dead refugees ‘fake’, as EU ignores criticism of deal with Tunisia.

Migrants in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax who are aiming to make Europe their new home are now sharing the burden and the blame for escalating tensions deeply tinged with racism amid the fears of European leaders who are trying to stanch the numbers of people arriving at their shores

The EU has promised Tunisia $280m in aid. But on the country’s frontiers, refugees and migrants are still stranded.

Dozens of refugees left without water or food in the desert after being expelled from Tunisia following racial tensions.

About 70 refugees, including women and children, are stuck in a ten-metre buffer zone they call ‘point zero’.

Tunisia claims to have evacuated groups of refugees it had expelled to its border, but many remain.

Migrant rescue group says it has lost contact with a large group of Black African migrants expelled from Tunisia.

Aid agencies say hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are being transferred back to Tunisia after being pushed into a dangerous no-man’s-land on the Libyan border

More than 1,000 people were bussed to borders with Libya, Algeria – and left with no food, water, shelter or way out.

Tunisian security forces in Sfax have rounded up hundreds of people from sub-Saharan Africa, including children, and dropped them in a no man’s land between the Tunisian and Libyan border, where they remain trapped with neither food nor water. These forced deportations carried out by the security services come against…

Calm has been partially restored in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax after xenophobic violence targeting sub-Saharan migrants flared up once again. The violence was triggered by the death a local man following an altercation between locals and migrants.