...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
said on Friday.
The figure is double that recorded in the first six months of 2022, the UN children’s agency Unicef said, as it called for expanded safe, legal and accessible pathways for children to seek protection in Europe.
Verena Knaus, a Unicef official, said the true figures were likely to be higher as many shipwrecks on the central Mediterranean leave no survivors or go unrecorded. "These deaths are absolutely preventable."
Knaus said that in the first six months of 2023, an estimated 11,600 children made the crossing.
STRANDED
Tunisian rights groups called on Friday called emergency aid and shelters for
Hundreds of
The port of Sfax is a departure point for many
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...by making a perilous Mediterranean crossing, often in makeshift boats.
Hundreds of
Romdane Ben Amor, spokesperson for the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, told news hounds on Friday that between 100 and 150
He said some 165
"
He called for emergency accommodation to be given to the
Around 100 protesters demonstrated on Friday evening in Tunis at the call of an anti-fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
coalition, expressing their "solidarity with undocumented
The demonstrators also slammed Tunisia’s police for "expelling you (
"Tunisia is African. No to racism, down with fascism
...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces-- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
," they chanted.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon...
the head of a Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian association claimed police had carried out "arbitrary arrests" of sub-Saharan Africans around the train station in Zarzis, south of Sfax.
"Around 300 have been arrested... just because of their skin colour," said Eric Tchata, who posted online a video taken by a fellow Cameroonian purporting to show a group of people, including women and kiddies, packed into a warehouse in Medenine, also south of Sfax.