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Security restored in Tripoli, Libya, after armed clashes on May 13, 2025. (Photo by Hazem Turkia/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Libya authorities free more than 200 migrants from 'secret prison'

Libya's security authorities have freed more than 200 migrants from what they described as a secret prison in the divided country's southeast

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 January, 2026
Demonstrators hold placards featuring the portrait of the detained civil society activist and former Executive Director of NGO 'Terre d'Asile Tunisie', Sherifa Riahi, as well as those of other defendants
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Tunisia court frees NGO workers accused of helping migrants

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 January, 2026
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9 African migrants freeze to death near Morocco-Algeria border

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 December, 2025
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Protest hits Rome over Libya migrant deal after boat wreck

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 October, 2025
Yemenis take to the sea to look for survivors after a boat carrying migrants capsized
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UN says 68 African migrants killed after boat capsized off Yemen

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
04 August, 2025
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Tunisia urges Europe to increase assistance to tackle migration crisis

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 July, 2024
Rally organized by lawyers from the Toulouse Bar to protest against the arrest of their Tunisian colleague Sonia Dahmani and journalists, in front of the consulate in Toulouse, France
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Tunisia lawyer handed one-year sentence over critical comments

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 July, 2024
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'Doha Declaration' focuses on Africa-Gulf labour mobility

The New Arab Staff
23 May, 2024
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Tunisia expels hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants from capital: NGO

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 May, 2024
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14 migrants found dead off southern Tunisia: official

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 April, 2024
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African migrants stuck and harassed in Sfax's olive fields

Jakob Plaschke is a freelance journalist and MA student at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.

Jakob Plaschke

18 April, 2024
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Tunisia arrests Kwongang, ex-head of migrant students group

Basma El Atti
27 March, 2024
Morocco
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Morocco intercepts boat with 141 African migrants

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 February, 2024
Tunisia
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Nearly 400 migrants repatriated from Tunisia: IOM

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 January, 2024
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Netflix's Hannibal casting triggers race debate in Tunisia

Basma El Atti
18 December, 2023
Tunisia
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Tunisia: 70,000 migrants intercepted in 2023, official says

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 December, 2023
Tunisia
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Tunisia expels over 100 migrants to Algeria border: HRW

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 October, 2023
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Tunisia
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African migrants face fatal pushbacks at Tunisian border

The New Arab Staff
29 September, 2023
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Eight migrants killed in Tunisia road accident

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
26 September, 2023
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In Israel, anti-migrant racism flares after Eritrean clashes

Alessandra Bajec
20 September, 2023
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Femicide in Kais Saied's Tunisia: Why do they hate us?

Ikram Ben Said

Ikram Ben Said

20 September, 2023