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News Tunisia » Sfax » History: Africans attacked, flee Sfax, as Tunisia racial tensions explode

News channel or source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/5/african-migrants-in-tunisia-face-discrimination-little-sympathy

Published on: Wednesday 05 July 2023

Sfax, Tunisia – Fear mixes with resignation at Sfax’s louage station, the marshalling point for the shared taxis that connect Tunisia. The long and motionless line to escape the city comprises ...

News Tunisia » Sfax » History: Near Sfax, refugees scramble after violent clashes with Tunisia police

News channel or source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/3/near-sfax-refugees-scramble-after-violent-clashes-with-tunisia-police

Published on: Saturday 02 December 2023

Sfax, Tunisia – On the outskirts of Tunisia’s second-largest city and the destination point for thousands of sub-Saharan African refugees hoping to get to Europe, 15-year-old Osman Bah from Guinea ...

News Tunisia » Sfax » History: In Tunisia, migrants are driven out and their defenders prosecuted

News channel or source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/10/in-tunisia-migrants-are-driven-out-and-their-defenders-prosecuted_6743247_4.html

Published on: Thursday 10 July 2025

Feature'2015-2025: Europe's migration crisis' (5/5). For the past two years, the administration of Tunisian President Kais Saied, funded by the European Union, has been pushing sub-Saharan Africans ...

News Tunisia » Sfax » History: Thousands of migrants living in fields near Tunisia's Sfax

News channel or source: https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/thousands-of-migrants-living-in-fields-near-tunisia-s-sfax-4375402

Published on: Wednesday 20 September 2023

Thousands of migrants are living without proper shelter north of Tunisia's port city of Sfax after many were driven out of the city by security forces, according to aid workers. Sfax has become a ...

News Tunisia » Sfax » History: Tunisia: No Safe Haven for Black African Migrants, Refugees

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/19/tunisia-no-safe-haven-black-african-migrants-refugees

Published on: Tuesday 18 July 2023

The Tunisian police, military, and national guard including the coast guard have committed serious abuses against Black African migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. With respect to Black Africans, ...

News Tunisia » Sfax » History: In Tunisia, authorities dismantle migrant camps in Sfax: 'They took everything down, then burned it all'

News channel or source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2025/04/08/in-tunisia-authorities-dismantle-migrant-camps-in-sfax-they-took-everything-down-then-burned-it-all_6739943_124.html

Published on: Monday 07 April 2025

Dismantling of a migrant camp in El Amra, in the suburbs of Sfax, on April 5, 2025. FETHI BELAID / AFP From the informal migrant camps set up around the commune of El Amra, north of the port city of ...