News Tunisia Medenine: NGOs Slam Tunisia for Sending Refugees Back to Libya
Tunisia's defence ministry said Monday it had prevented 53 Ivorian and Sudanese citizens from illegally entering the country, a move condemned by NGOs as a violation of rights. On Sunday, two groups - 33 Ivorians and 20 Sudanese - arriving from Libya by land were arrested by military units in the southern border area of Medenine and sent back to Libyan territory, the defence ministry said. The units asked the groups to enter via official border crossings, the ministry said in a statement.
News Tunisia Medenine: Final communication with Ivorian migrants trapped at the Tunisia-Libya border
She was in southern Tunisia, near the former refugee camp in Ras Jedir, when she managed to speak to one of the migrants on the phone several times: They told me that they were taken to a police ...
News Tunisia Medenine: UN raises fears over Ivorian migrants turned back by Tunisia
The United Nations sounded the alarm Wednesday over the safety of 36 Ivorian migrants, including children and women, turned back by Tunisian authorities on the border with Libya. The UN office in Tunis said it had been informed that the migrants, including a pregnant woman, were sent back on August
News Tunisia Medenine: 72 bodies recovered from sunken migrant boat off Tunisia coast
This brings the number of bodies retrieved so far in the incident to 72, according to Mongi Slim, the head of the Tunisian Red Crescent branch in the southern province of Medenine. The boat sank off ...
News Tunisia Medenine: 80 migrants feared dead after boat sinks off coast of Tunisia
TUNIS (DPA) - At least 80 migrants are feared dead after their boat sank off the Tunisian coast, International Organisation for Migration (IOM) spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo wrote on Twitter on Thursday (July 4).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
News Tunisia Medenine: Tunisia recovers 13 bodies of illegal immigrants off southeastern coast
The bodies were found off Jorf coast in the province of Medenine and Katf coast of the city of Ben Guerdane close to the Libyan border, said Mongi Slim, head of the Medenine branch of the Tunisian Red ...
News Tunisia Medenine: Libya battles raise rents in Tunisia
Medenine and Djerba, with more Libyan expected to seek refuge in these areas over the coming months. Boussaida added that a lack of basic food commodities, including bread, and power cuts may push ...
News Tunisia Medenine: UNHCR’s Special Envoy stresses need for better distribution of refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia
Cochetel, who recently visited the "Ibn Khaldoun" reception centre in Medenine, reported that the situation was ... are unwilling to return to their native countries and refusing to stay in Tunisia. ...
News Tunisia Medenine: From Eritrea to Tunisia through Libya: Refugees escaping death
On March 21, 2019, the Medenine refugee shelter closed its doors. Tunisia Red Crescent’s regional committee called for the closure two weeks after the protest movement carried out by a group of ...
