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Africa North
Tunisia says sinking leaves 2 migrants dead, many missing
2020-10-12
[AlAhram] Two bodies were recovered and seven people rescued after a boat carrying dozens of would-be migrants colonists went down off the Tunisian coast on Sunday, the National Guard said.

"A boat carrying illegal migrants colonists was shipwrecked off Sfax... two bodies, of a woman and a baby, were found, and seven people were rescued," front man Housemeddine Jebabli told AFP.

According to initial estimates, 30 migrants colonists from sub-Saharan Africa were on board the vessel, Jebabli said, adding that a search was underway for those missing.

He did not indicate where they had departed from.

The number of would-be migrants colonists attempting to cross to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
from Tunisia sharply from a peak in 2011.

But it began rising again in 2017, driven partly by economic woes and inequality in the North African country, almost a decade after a revolution that many hoped would bring change.

The interior ministry said Sunday it had stopped 32 attempts to cross the Mediterranean and arrested 262 people between the start of the year and mid-September. Two people were from sub-Saharan Africa.

Over the same period, 8,581 people were intercepted while trying to reach Europe by sea from Tunisia, the ministry said. They included 2,104 foreigners.
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