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News Tunisia » Sfax » People: 25 People Die as Migrant Boat Sinks Off Sfax, Tunisia

News channel or source: https://www.marinelink.com/news/people-die-migrant-boat-sinks-off-sfax-504353

Published on: Wednesday 12 April 2023

Tunisia's coastguard has recovered 15 more bodies of migrants, bringing the death toll from a shipwreck off Tunisia to 25, a security official told Reuters on Thursday. A wooden boat packed with about ...

News Tunisia » Sfax » People: 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 » People: 'Like we're not human': Migrants in Tunisia pressured to go home

News channel or source: https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Sep/19/like-were-not-human-migrants-in-tunisia-pressured-to-go-home

Published on: Saturday 19 September 2026

TUNIS: Less than a year after arriving in Tunisia, Michael Oppona had not planned to return to Ghana. But, faced with increasingly harsh pressure from local aut ...

News Tunisia » Sfax » People: At least 27 people killed, dozens rescued after two shipwrecks off Tunisia

News channel or source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/2/at-least-27-people-killed-dozens-rescued-after-two-shipwrecks-off-tunisia

Published on: Thursday 02 January 2025

At least 27 people including women and children have died and 83 others were rescued after two boats capsized off Tunisia, the country’s National Guard has said. The boats sank in waters off the city ...

News Tunisia » Sfax » People: Second Synagogue in Tunisia Attacked Since October 7

News channel or source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/02/29/second-synagogue-in-tunisia-attacked-since-october-7/

Published on: Wednesday 28 February 2024

A mob set fire to the courtyard of a Tunisian synagogue in the city of Sfax on Sunday, the second such incident since the Israel-Hamas war began in October. Nobody was injured in the fire — as there ...

News Tunisia » Sfax » People: Tunisia arrests migrants, seizes boats in major people-smuggling crackdown

News channel or source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisia-arrests-migrants-seizes-boats-major-people-smuggling-crackdown-2023-09-16/

Published on: Saturday 16 September 2023

TUNIS, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Tunisian police supported by planes and anti-terrorism units arrested hundreds of migrants and seized boats on Saturday in a major crackdown on people smuggling in the ...