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At least 43 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia, Red Crescent says
[AlAhram] At least 43 migrants colonists drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italia, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Islamic Thingy told Rooters on Saturday

The boat had set off from Zuwara, on Libya's northwest coast, carrying migrants colonists from Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
 and Bangladesh, the humanitarian organization said.

In recent months, several drowning incidents have occurred off the Tunisian coast, with an increase in the frequency of attempted crossings to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
from Tunisia and Libya towards Italia as the weather has improved.

"The navy rescued 84 migrants colonists and 43 others drowned in a boat that set off from Libya's Zuwara towards Europe," Red Islamic Thingy official Mongi Slim said.

Hundreds of thousands of people have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing in recent years, many of them fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.

Arrivals in Italia - one of the main migrant routes into Europe - had been falling in recent years, but numbers picked up again in 2021.

Almost 19,800 migrants colonists have arrived since the beginning of the year against just over 6,700 in the same period last year, Italian interior Ministry figures show.
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