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A forensic scientist at a morgue in the coastal city of Sfax, prepares to take a DNA sample from the body of one of the 52 African migrants, who died at sea when their boat capsized near Tunisia’s Kerkennah islands, on June 15, 2020. (AFP)
Tunisian forensic experts strive to identify drowning migrants
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A file picture shows migrants aboard a ship docked in the southern Tunisian port of Zarzis. (AFP)
Summer weather, economic woes spur illegal migration in Tunisia
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An employee from the municipality of Zarzis works at the tombs of  African migrants in El Ketif near the eastern coastal city of Zarzis, July 17. (AFP)
Controversy in Tunisia over migrants’ burials
Lamine Ghanmi
  • Zarzis
Migrants, who were rescued after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian Coast after they had left Libya, are seen inside a local Red Cresent chapter in Zarzis, Tunisia May 11, 2019. (Reuters)
Migrant boat with 86 on board sinks off Tunisia, 4 rescued
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Survivors of a boat carrying migrants that sunk in the Mediterranean during the night of 9 and 10 May, gather at a shelter in the Tunisian coastal city of Zarzis on May 11, 2019. (AFP)
60 migrants drown off Tunisia: Red Crescent
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Vehicles wait near the Tunisian customs post at the Ras Jedir border crossing with Libya, south of of Ben Guerdane. (AFP)
Free trade zone to be established on Tunisian-Libyan border
Riadh Bouazza
  • Zarzis
A view of a beach in the coastal town of Zarzis.  (Tunisian Tourism Ministry)
Looking for an untypical beach resort? Try Tunisia’s Zarzis
Roua Khlifi
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Protesters outside of the Italian embassy in Tunis hold up signs in support of fishermen arrested at sea by Italian authorities. (Simon Speakman Cordall for The Arab Weekly)
Arrest of ‘heroic’ Tunisian fishermen in Italy sparks outcry at home
Stephen Quillen
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