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Dozens killed, at least 150 missing after Canaries-bound migrant boat capsizes off Mauritania

At least 25 have reportedly died and more than 150 are missing when a boat full of people hoping to get to Spain’s Canary Islands capsized off the coast of Mauritania on Monday July 22, the latest in a string of migrant tragedies off the coast of West Africa, Mauritanian news agency  AMI said on […]

Tunisia Needs Marshall Plan, EU Parliament Committee Says

Members of the European parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee have stated that Tunisia’s transitional period needs support and stronger cooperation with the European Union. The MEPs underlined the need “to support the democratic consolidation and promote economic development” in a plan, that the Tunisian state-owned media called a “Marshall Plan” in reference to the post world […]

Tunisia: EuroMed NGO decries deteriorating human rights situation

EuroMed Rights NGO has voiced deep concern over the escalating oppression in Kaïs Saïed’s Tunisia which has intensified its campaign of arrests, intimidation, denigration and targeted attacks against political opponents, journalists, trade unionists and civil society representatives. The vocal critics of the Tunisian regime are unfairly accused of conspiracy to undermine state security, corruption, or […]