EU announces 1 billion euros in aid for Lebanon amid a surge in irregular migration
BEIRUT (AP) — The European Union announced Thursday an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — ...
ABBY SEWELL
03/05/2024
Tunisia
Tunisia’s Islamist party leader is sentenced to 15 months in prison for supporting terrorism
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The leader of Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party was sentenced to 15 months in ...
BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
01/11/2023
Belgian minister quits after ‘monumental error’ let Tunisian shooter slip through extradition net
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s justice minister resigned on Friday over what he described as a “monumenta...
LORNE COOK
21/10/2023
Families of imprisoned Tunisian dissidents head to the International Criminal Court
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Family members of jailed lawyers and politicians in Tunisia want the Internati...
SAM METZ
05/10/2023
Tunisia rejects European funds and says they fall short of a deal for migration and financial aid
Tunisia on Monday announced it would reject an installment of funds sent by Europe to help the debt-...
SAM METZ
03/10/2023
What’s behind the surge in migrant arrivals to Italy?
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of migrants and refugees have landed on the Italian island of Lamp...
RENATA BRITO
16/09/2023
Tiny Italian island struggles to cope with thousands of migrants who arrived in a short span
MILAN (AP) — A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed ...
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14/09/2023
2 top officials of Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party arrested while its leader languishes in jail
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian officials detained a former prime minister for questioning then freed...
BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
06/09/2023
Migrants from dozens of boats reach tiny Italian isles; charity ship rescues hundreds of people
ROME (AP) — Migrants who set out in dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers on Tunisian shores ...
FRANCES D’EMILIO
13/08/2023
Italy investigates migrant boat disaster, with 41 feared dead. Four survivors tell a harrowing tale
ROME (AP) — Prosecutors in Sicily on Thursday investigated a capsizing that left 41 migrants missing...
FRANCES D’EMILIO
10/08/2023
At least 27 migrants found dead in the desert near Tunisian border, Libyan government says
CAIRO (AP) — At least 27 suspected migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have died in recent days in the ...
JACK JEFFERY
10/08/2023
41 dead in migrant shipwreck according to 4 survivors who set off from Tunisia
ROME (AP) — Forty-one people are believed dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Tunisia i...
NICOLE WINFIELD
09/08/2023
Dozens saved by Italy from migrant shipwrecks; some, clinging to rocks, plucked to safety by copters
ROME (AP) — Dozens of migrants were dramatically rescued by Italy as they foundered in the sea or cl...
FRANCES D’EMILIO
06/08/2023
Tunisian minister concedes ‘small groups’ of migrants were pushed back into desert no man’s land
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s interior minister conceded that small groups of sub-Saharan migrants...
BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
04/08/2023
Tunisia’s president sacks prime minister, the first woman to hold that job in an Arab League nation
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s president has sacked the country’s prime minister, who was the first...
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02/08/2023
Tunisians protest president’s expanding powers and demand release of all jailed political opponents
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Despite scorching heat, opposition demonstrators gathered on Tuesday on the ma...
BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
26/07/2023
Wildfires in Algeria leave at least 34 people dead and hundreds injured
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Fires raging through forests, mountain villages and towns in northern Algeri...
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25/07/2023