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Tunisia: President continues to weaken Islamist party Ennahdha with more arrests

Two leaders of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha have been arrested, the party said Wednesday, in the latest move against it by President Kais Saied's government. Ennahda was the largest party in parliament until Saied dissolved the legislature in...
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Tunisia arrests ‘pirates’ after migrants robbed at sea

Tunisian police arrested four men, including a fisherman, on suspicion of maritime piracy after the robbery of a boat taking Tunisian migrants to Italy, an official said on Thursday. Police intervened and arrested the four Tunisians on Saturday after one of the...
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North African governments struggling with migrant crisis

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...
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Migration Crisis: Latest News

Four dead, 51 missing in shipwreck off Tunisia At least 11 migrants have died in a shipwreck off Tunisia's coast and 44 others are missing, a judicial sources said Monday, revising an earlier toll of four fatalities. "Seven new bodies have been recovered on Sunday...
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