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2022-01-23 Africa North
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Migrant boat sinks off Tunisia coast; 4 dead, 7 missing
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[AlAhram] Four people died after a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants colonists on the Mediterranean Sea sank off Tunisia's coast, the Tunisian Defense Ministry said Friday.
Defense Ministry front man Mohammed Zekri said navy divers rescued 21 people on Thursday night and seven were still missing. The boat was heading to Italia, Zekri said.
Local media reported that a 10-year-old girl was among those who died.
Survivors told authorities that the boat had left the island of Kerkennah, near the port city of Sfax, carrying 32 Tunisians.
The U.N. has estimated that 20% of about 115,000 migrants colonists who reached Europa
 ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
by sea last year started the journey from Tunisia. Social unrest has gripped the North African country has for years as the economy worsened and unemployment reached 18%.
The central Mediterranean route, which runs from North Africa to southern Italia, is the busiest and deadliest migration route to Europe. People travel from Libya and Tunisia in crowded boats and at the mercy of the smugglers, they pay to get them across the sea.
About 60,000 people arrived in Italia by sea last year, and some 1,200 died or disappeared on the journey, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
On Wednesday, an amphibious unit of Tunisia's navy rescued 23 people from a sinking boat as they left Tunisia for Italia, according to the Tunisian Defense ministry. It said 13 of the passengers were from Mali and 10 were from the Ivory Coast. 
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