Tunisia

Belgium’s justice minister resigned after it was found that Tunisia was seeking the extradition of an Islamic extremist before he killed two in Brussels.

Tunisian migrant confessed to killing a taxi driver just two days after he was said to have murdered his girlfriend with the same knife. 

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said.

Prime Minister Meloni said at a summit in Rome that the EU should support African states to help stop migrants from trying to reach Europe.

Italy is on pace to see a record number of illegal boat migrants land on its shores as landings surged by 150 per cent.

The Fourth of July is a celebration of the most successful revolution in the history of mankind. By any objective measure, the rebellious colonies that broke away from the British empire in 1776 were more successful in forming an enduring new nation than other rebels and separatists throughout history. Indeed, the United States of America was soon put to its own rebellion test and the Union endured, surviving one of the most devastating wars ever fought.

Germany and France are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea from countries like Tunisia.

A Tunisian naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians as he tried to reach a synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba.

Tunisia’s coast guard says it recovered around 210 bodies of migrants under two weeks that have washed up on the African country’s coast.

“We are ready to drown and die to improve our situation,” said a Syrian who identified himself only as Mohamed.

At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy.

A Tunisian migrant attacked French police with a knife in southern France this week, yelling the phrase “Allahu akbar!”

President Saied has ordered officials to tackle illegal migration after alleging “a criminal plot” to “change Tunisia’s demographic make-up”.

Tunisian President Kais Saied has been criticised for stating illegal immigration is directed toward changing demographics.

A 21-year-old Tunisian suspected of drug dealing was arrested this week in the city of Toulon after attacking French police officers, injuring two.

A terrorist watchlist Tunisian migrant banned from entering Europe was arrested in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis on Sunday. 

Tunisians voted in favor of a new constitution this week that will grant the North African nation’s president, Kais Saied, “unchecked powers,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday, noting that voter turnout in the referendum was “poor,” as 30.5 percent of eligible voters participated.

Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has reported that so far this year, at least 6,701 migrants have arrived in Italy by sea, with around half of the migrants needing to be rescued. According to Minister Lamorgese, 3,323  of the 6701 migrants were

Two Tunisian migrants were arrested in Rome after allegedly sexually abusing a teenage boy as well as his mother and livestreaming the abuse on Facebook.

An illegal migrant armed with a rifle shot several times at French police officers in the city centre of Carpentras on Wednesday morning after they stopped a brawl.

A suspected radical Islamic terrorist was arrested this week at a migrant reception facility in Venice. He is believed to belong to an Islamic State cell.

A teen Tunisian ‘influencer’ took criticism after she posted videos online of her aboard a boat of illegal immigrants heading to Italy. 

Nearly a year after the deadly terror attack that saw three people murdered by a Tunisian national, another Tunisian entered the Nice Basilica and threatened staff while yelling in Arabic this week.

France will be cutting the number of visas granted for three North African nations after it was revealed that hardly any illegals from the three countries were deported this year.

One-hundred-thirteen senior officials from Tunisia’s opposition Ennahda party resigned on Saturday, protesting President Kais Saied’s increasingly dictatorial rule and their own party leadership’s poor response to it. Thousands of demonstrators rallied in the capital of Tunis on Sunday to demand Saied’s resignation.

A pair of Tunisian illegal migrants have been accused of sexually harassing a pair of sisters aged 18 and 15 after they managed to escape a migrant reception facility.

Two men in Tunisia set themselves on fire over the past few days to protest living conditions in their country, reprising the event that set the “Arab Spring” uprisings of 2011 in motion.

Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has called on the European Union to develop an economic aid plan to funnel cash to Africa in the hopes of mitigating illegal migration.

Italy’s Interior Ministry has revealed that from August 1st, 2020, to July 31st of this year, 49,280 arrived illegally in the country.

A Tunisian migrant was convicted of violently beating his pregnant wife this week after reportedly telling witnesses to the violence: “It’s my wife, I do what I want.”

An Italian anti-terrorism prosecutor has expressed concerns that radical Islamic jihadists are among the wave of illegal migrants coming to Europe from North Africa.

According to a report at Middle East Eye on Wednesday, Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi was persuaded to resign over the weekend by getting repeatedly punched in the face, allegedly with the involvement of visiting Egyptian security officials who were advising President Kais Saied on his bid to assert total control by invoking emergency powers.

A German-Tunisian Islamic State widow has been sentenced to just four years in prison after being convicted of enslaving two Yazidi women while living in the former caliphate.

At least 17 migrants drowned and more than 300 were rescued by Tunisian and Libyan naval units in the Mediterranean.

PARIS (AP) – France will allow international travellers who have had AstraZeneca’s Indian-manufactured vaccine into the country starting Sunday.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi is expected to back a proposal to replicate the widely criticised European Union migrant deal with Turkey in North Africa as migrant numbers continue to surge, primarily into Italy.