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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 Libyan interior ministry earlier on Thursday announced the bilateral agreement to "put an end to the crisis of irregular migrants stranded in the border area".
Tunisian security forces in Sfax have rounded up hundreds of people from sub-Saharan Africa, including children, and dropped them in a no man’s land between the Tunisian and Libyan border, where they remain trapped with neither food nor water. These forced deportations carried out by the security services come against a backdrop of heightened anti-migrant rhetoric and violence that broke out in Sfax the night of July 3. Our team spoke to a man from the Ivory Coast who said that some people had d
Racial tensions in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax flared into violence targeting migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, dozens of whom were forcibly evicted from the city, witnesses said Wednesday.Videos shared on social media showed police chasing dozens of migrants from their homes to the cheers of city residents, before loading them into police cars.
To help out our brothers in libya because gadhafi has lost it. and we are worried about our egyptian brothers who are still in libya. he's among more than 40,000 egyptians who have now been evacuated through tunisia. he says he'll go to the square and celebrate his own country's revolution and then -- hopefully look for a job to feed his family, he says. becky anderson, cnn, near the tunisian/libyan border. obama's libyan abdication. the paper says if mr. obama thinks george w. bush was unpopular in the arab world, he should contemplate the standing of america and the world reputation of bar...
>> oh, if i can enter, i will enter, yes. and i help the people there. i try to help the people and i try to do something with the resistance against the government. >> reporter: the rush of refugees has already overwhelmed the network of temporary camps and shelters set up by the tunisian government. as the wind kicks up, this growing army of stranded foreign workers is left camping in the dirt, victims of the storm that is transforming the middle east. ivan watson, cnn, on the tunisian/libyan border. the problem of refuges fleeing unrest is a lot bigger than just libya. it's bigger than no...