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A crowd of sub-Saharan African migrants push and shove to board a train at the station in Sfax, Tunisia, on Wednesday.

The death of a Tunisian stabbed in a brawl in the port city of Sfax unleashes a wave of harassment of West African migrants trying to reach Europe by boat

Members of Tunisia’s National Guard intercept a raft of irregular migrants hailing from sub-Saharan Africa off the coast of Sfax, Tunisia, in October of 2022.

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Trapped in Tunisia: The deadly coast of clandestine immigration to Europe

Juan Carlos Sanz|Sfax|Jun 05, 2023 - 01:20 CEST

The number of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Tunisia has skyrocketed in the first four months of 2023. Between January and April, 498 individuals disappeared in shipwrecks while en route to Italy

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Tunisia banishes scores of sub-Saharan Africans to the desert after an outbreak of racial violence

Trapped in Tunisia: The deadly coast of clandestine immigration to Europe

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