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Tunisians tell the story of their summer of shortages

Frequent water and power cuts, long queues for bottled water, poultry farms destroyed by the heat: these have been the scenes across Tunisia this summer as millions of people were affected by shortages in electricity and water. Our Observers say this is the result of years of underinvestment in infrastructure…

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Driven from camp to camp, Tunisia’s migrants still dream of Europe

In eastern Tunisia, near the coastal city of Sfax, hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been forced to move to nearby olive groves after authorities dismantled their camps earlier this month.

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‘I don’t know where I will go’: Refugees run out of options in Tunisia

Blocked from staying and barred from moving to other camps, refugees in Tunisia weigh a bleak future.

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27 Sub-Saharan African Migrants Die Off Tunisia In Shipwrecks

Twenty-seven migrants, including women and children, died after two boats capsized off central Tunisia, with 83 people rescued, a civil defence official told AFP on Thursday.

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Deadly New Year for migrants as Tunisian shipwreck claims 27 lives

Twenty-seven migrants, including women and children, died after two boats capsized off central Tunisia, with 83 people rescued, a civil defence official told AFP on Thursday.

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The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in the desert and colluding with smugglers

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Tunisia: The migration trap

Asylum seekers from across Africa are becoming stranded, unable to return home and persecuted by authorities.

Al Jazeera

Tunis police raid sees refugees abandoned near the border with Algeria

Tunisia’s sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants describe being victims of vilification and kidnapping nationwide.

Al Jazeera

Migrants Eyeing Europe Bide Their Time In Tunisia

Thousands of sub-Saharan migrants have huddled in Tunisian olive groves for months, living in makeshift tents and surviving on meagre rations while keeping their hopes alive of reaching Europe.

International Business Times

In Tunisia, the families of El Hancha’s disappeared fight to find them

They have vowed to continue their fight till they find out what happened to their disappeared loved ones.

Al Jazeera

At least 13 Sudanese asylum seekers killed after boat capsizes off Tunisia

Officials said an investigation was launched as the search was ongoing for 27 missing people.

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Near Sfax, refugees scramble after violent clashes with Tunisia police

As police and the national guard scour nearby Al Amra for a missing gun and ammunition, refugees are displaced again.

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‘I had to drink my own urine to survive’: Africans tell of being forced into the desert at Tunisia border

As EU prepares to send money as part of €1bn deal, people trying to reach north African country detail border ‘pushbacks’

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Al Jazeera

Europe frets over migration; Tunisia moves refugees to departure points

Pact that promised Tunisia financial support in return for stopping migration is being debated in Europe.

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The Sudanese who fled war for weeks, now praying for a boat to Europe

Al Jazeera speaks to Sudanese refugees in Tunisia’s Sfax who dream of ‘complete security’ across the Mediterranean.

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‘You have to do it’: Refugees in Tunisia undeterred by Lampedusa shipwreck

Despite deaths at sea, refugees in the port of Sfax are still adamant about trying to reach Europe by boat.

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Tunisia, Libya to share responsibility for migrants stranded on border

Tunisia and Libya announced Thursday they had agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of migrants stranded at their border, many of them for over a month.

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41 dead in migrant shipwreck according to 4 survivors who set off from Tunisia

Forty-one people are believed dead after a migrant boat capsized off Tunisia

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More than 40 feared dead after boat sinks in Mediterranean near Lampedusa

Four people rescued say vessel had set off from Sfax in Tunisia and had taken on water in stormy conditions

Al Jazeera

Tunisian parliament gets defensive after Black refugee treatment criticism

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

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Rights activists fear Tunisia deal will be model for bartering EU money for migrants' lives

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

Al Jazeera

Despite EU-Tunisia deal, Black refugees pushed out ‘at gunpoint’

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

Al Jazeera

Libyan authorities rescue refugees in desert near Tunisia

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

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Black refugees stranded in Tunisian desert witness death, misery

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

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