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A rubber dinghy brings back dozens of people from one of six boats the Tunisian coastguard intercepted in a 24-hour period off Sfax, a migrant launchpad for Europe. "Our priority is to save lives," said Mouhamed Borhen Chamtouri, a commander of Tunisia's coastguard,...

Tunisia and Libya announced Thursday they had agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of migrants stranded at their border, many of them for over a month. The migrants, primarily from sub-Saharan African countries, had been driven to the...

The number of prisoners held in penitentiary establishments in Morocco reached, as of August 07, 2023, a total of 100,004 prisoners, a record figure, knowing that the reception capacity of these establishments does not currently exceed 64,600 beds. For example, the...