The Latest Breaking News from Tunis

French rapper Maître Gims has announced the cancellation of an upcoming concert in Djerba, Tunisia, to protest against the treatment of black African migrants stranded near the border areas with Algeria and Libya.

With irregular migration to Europe at a seven-year high, exacerbating a problem that is destabilising the bloc, Brussels is renewing its efforts to close off the sea route from North Africa, said Vivian Yee in The New York Times.

Tunisia and Algeria are the latest countries struggling with intense wildfires amid soaring temperatures.

Farmers in northern Tunisia say conditions are getting much worse despite government efforts to combat climate change.

Opposition has kept up its demonstrations against what it calls a ‘coup’ against Tunisia’s democracy.

As blistering heatwave hits Tunisia, migrants from sub-Saharan African countries are enduring unbearable conditions.

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.

The International Commission of Jurists says that President Saied is shutting down space for free speech online.

The crossing through the Central Mediterranean to the EU is the most active route this year, border agency Frontex says.

The European Union has signed a "strategic" pact with President Kais Saied to stem the flow of migration to Europe, as well as promoting economic development and renewable energy.