...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
migration agency said.
The overloaded boat went down near the southern island of Kerkenna. At least 100 people were killed or are missing, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
"Among the 60 victims transferred to the forensic department at Habib Bourguiba hospital in Sfax, 48 are Tunisians ... 12 are non-Tunisian, the identifications are in progress," Lorena Lando, chief of mission of the IOM in Tunisia said in a statement late on Monday.
Human traffickers increasingly use Tunisia as a launch pad for
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...as Libya’s coastguard, aided by gangs, has tightened controls.
Tunisian authorities, which on Sunday said they had recovered 48 bodies, provided no new figures, but said the coasties was still searching for dozens of missing
The IOM said 68 had been rescued - 60 Tunisians, two Moroccans, one Libyan, one Malian, one Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian national and three Ivorians.
The IOM said 1,910 Tunisian
Security officials said the boat was packed with about 180
Survivors said the captain had abandoned the boat after it started sinking to escape arrest by the coastguard.
Unemployed Tunisians and other Africans have often tried to cross in makeshift boats from Tunisia to Sicily in southern Italia. The North African country’s economy is in crisis since the toppling of autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 threw Tunisia into turmoil with unemployment and inflation soaring.
On Monday, Italia’s new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Italia will no longer be "Europe’s refugee camp", as he promised tough action to reduce migrant arrivals and send back those who had arrived.