Almost 800 migrants drowned off Tunisia in six months: National Guard
TUNIS: Almost 800 irregular migrants drowned off Tunisia in the first half of this year as they tried to reach Europe by boat, a National Guard spokesman told AFP on Thursday .
The distance between Tunisia, near its second city of Sfax, and the Italian island of Lampedusa is about 130km, and the sea voyages pick up in the summer months. Coastguard units carried out 1,310 operations in the first six months, more than double the number of missions for that period last year. 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 As Tunisia has become a growing hub on the migrant route, racial tensions and violence have flared in the country of 12 million which is struggling with a deep economic crisis.Xenophobic attacks have repeatedly targeted black African migrants and students, fuelled by incendiary rhetoric from autocratic President Kais Saied.
Human Rights Watch said up to 1,200 black Africans were"expelled or forcibly transferred by Tunisian security forces" to the border regions with Libya and Algeria this month.
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