Nineteen bodies were recovered off the Tunisian coast, a common departure point for migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the coast guard reported.
The bodies were found near Mahdia and Sfax, Tunisia's second-largest city, where recent tensions between migrants and police have escalated.
This year, over 49,000 individuals have reached Europe by sea, with more than 7,000 traveling from Tunisia to Italy.
Thousands more have been stopped by North African forces, and the UN's International Organisation for Migration estimates 473 are dead or missing.
Lawyers for Abir Moussi, leader of Tunisia’s Free Constitutional Party, have launched an appeal against charges that could lead
France expressed growing alarm Friday over the detention of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria. The 75-year-old novelist, a vocal
For the second year in a row Libya is on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) list of the top
Moroccan and Spanish security services have dismantled a ISIS affiliated terrorist cell in the Sahel. The operation, carried out by
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