Tunisia looks to welcome refugees, migrants with new asylum law - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

Oct 6, 2015

Illegal migrants disembark as they arrive in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia, June 10, 2015. Tunisia's navy rescued more than 350 illegal migrants off its coast and was searching for hundreds more on Wednesday after they tried to sail from neighbouring Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa, the local Red Cross said. REUTERS/Stringer - RTX1G08U — Undocumented migrants disembark in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia, after being rescued by Tunisia's naval forces in a failed attempt to cross into Italy from neighboring Libya, June 10, 2015. — REUTERS

Tunisian civil protection workers recover the body of an African migrant near the eastern city of Zarzis, on July 16, 2019, after a string of deadly shipwrecks

Tunisia says 900 migrants drowned off its coast this year

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People fleeing unrest in Tunisia are escorted by Guardia di Finanza police officers as they arrive at the southern Italian island of Lampedusa March 30, 2011. The International Organisation for Migration estimates a million people have flooded out of Libya alone since the uprisings began. The vast majority - about 98 percent - have ended up in neighbouring states like Egypt, Tunisia or Algeria. But coupled with the thousands of Tunisians who have taken advantage of looser security following the fall of pres

Tunisians reach Italian shores in ever larger numbers

Conor McCormick-Cavanagh

Conor McCormick-Cavanagh

A man fishes from his boat as a group of migrants gather on the seawall at the Saint Ludovic border crossing on the Mediterranean Sea between Vintimille, Italy and Menton, France, June 14, 2015. On Saturday, some 200 migrants, principally from Eritrea and Sudan who attempted to cross the border, were blocked by Italian police and French gendarmes. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX1GFZS

Suffering in silence, Sudanese refugees now migrating from Egypt

Tom Rollins

The 2017 deal has faced renewed scrutiny since far-right Italian leader Giorgia Meloni's government took office

'We'll shoot you': violence stalks EU-Libya migrant deal

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