A group of Tunisian and international NGOs have issued a statement expressing their solidarity with migrants and refugees protesting against the UNHCR in Tunisia.
According to a human rights observatory, 2021 saw record numbers of minors arriving in Italy from Tunisia irregularly, more than half of them sub-Saharan Africans. The numbers have more than quadrupled compared to 2017.
Dozens of migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan African countries and Sudan, have staged protests in the southern Tunisian city of Zarzis. They said they had been marginalized and demanded to be evacuated.