SFAX, Tunisia- Xenophobia and frustration in Tunisia’s migration hub of Sfax against Black African migrants has turned to violence and left hundreds stranded in the Libyan border. Months of rising tensions boiled …
TUNIS, Tunisia -Six weeks after an incendiary speech by Tunisian President Kais Saied triggered a surge in racist violence against sub-Saharan migrants, hundreds of its victims are still camped on a cobblestone …
TUNIS, Tunisia -In an address to Tunisia’s National Security Council last Tuesday, President Kais Saied demanded urgent action to crack down on migration from sub-Saharan Africa, which he said was part of …
DUHOK, Iraqi Kurdistan—On a warm afternoon, 30-year-old Vian Ramo walked along an unpaved road inside an informal housing settlement in Sharya, a town in the Duhok province. Wearing a denim shirt, black …
TUNIS, Tunisia -Tunisian students caught up in the Russia-Ukraine war have given harrowing accounts of fleeing the fighting while leaving behind the lives they worked hard to build for years. A flight …
Betrayed by the ruling elite and disillusioned, many Lebanese are looking for a way out. Until two years ago, 37-year-old Bahaa Malaeb never thought that one day he would have to leave his homeland. A …
ZARZIS, Tunisia- A 600 square metre plot of land, formerly part of a landfill, some eight kilometres from Zarzis, in southern Tunisia, serves as an informal burial site. It is not like …
ZARZIS, Tunisia- On March 8, a boat carrying 64 irregular migrants, including four women, was rescued by Tunisian navy off Zarzis, after it broke down. The migrants, of African origin, were coming …
MEDENINE, Tunisia- A young woman is hanging out with her little daughter by the entrance to the office building of the Red Crescent centre in the southern town of Medenine. Looking toughened, …
TUNIS, Tunisia- Earlier in September, Fatima Kasraoui gathered with other Tunisians outside the Italian embassy in Tunis to demand the release of local fishermen detained by the Italian authorities over allegations of …
