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2024-02-10 Africa North
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13 people are dead and 27 missing after a boat carrying Sudanese migrants to Europe sank
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[AFRICANEWS] At least 13 Sudan
 ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
ese migrants colonists died and 27 others are believed missing after their small metal boat sank Thursday off the Tunisian coast as they sought to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe, according to local authorities.
The Tunisian coasties was able to rescue just two people from the capsized boat 14 kilometers (nine miles) off the coast of the port of Chebba, and is searching for those missing, regional court spokesperson Farid Ben Jha said. The survivors said a total of 42 people were aboard, all from Sudan.
They said the group had left from the coast of nearby Sfax, a common jumping-off point for illegal boat journeys across the Mediterranean to Italia. The boat sank soon after setting to sea, Ben Jha said.
Such migration attempts have increased recently from Tunisia, by both Tunisians and people from elsewhere in Africa.
Migration activists sounded the alarm last month about mass expulsions and arbitrary arrests of migrants colonists in Tunisia, where authorities are seeing more migrants colonists arrive for attempted Mediterranean crossings from the North African nation to Europe.
The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights cited witness accounts indicating the situation had become particularly dire around Tunisia's borders with Libya and Algeria as well as around Sfax, the country's second most populous city, 117 miles (188 kilometers) from the Italian Island of Lampedusa,
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