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Ursula von der Leyen hails deal as an investment in shared prosperity and stability

Tunisia has a complex history with Black refugees and migrants, as well as its own native Black population.

Critics of deal say EU funds should have conditions attached related to human rights and democracy

Aid agencies say hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are being transferred back to Tunisia after being pushed into a dangerous no-man’s-land on the Libyan border

More than 1,000 people were bussed to borders with Libya, Algeria – and left with no food, water, shelter or way out.

Tunisian President Kais Saied said refugees were receiving humane treatment stemming from what he called ‘our values’.

Tunisian security forces in Sfax have rounded up hundreds of people from sub-Saharan Africa, including children, and dropped them in a no man’s land between the Tunisian and Libyan border, where they remain trapped with neither food nor water. These forced deportations carried out by the security services come against…

Calm has been partially restored in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax after xenophobic violence targeting sub-Saharan migrants flared up once again. The violence was triggered by the death a local man following an altercation between locals and migrants.

Hundreds of people were rounded up from Sfax and driven to the militarised Tunisia-Libya border zone this week.