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· RFI, « Mauritanie: un total de 144 morts ou disparus sur la route migratoire vers les Canaries », 24 July 2026
On 21 July, 144 people died or went missing when their boat sank off the coast of Mauritania. They had set out from The Gambia to reach the Canary Islands. The Atlantic route is one of the most dangerous migration routes, particularly because the departure points on the west coast of Africa are shifting ever further south, which increases the distance (…)

Tunisia Business News, Taking the streets to break the silence: citizen mobilisation against racism in Tunis, 11 April 2026
Following a citizens’ petition launched on 7 April and shared on social media, a solidarity march against racism took place in Tunis on Saturday 11 April. Slogans were chanted to denounce racist online discourse, discriminatory remarks by certain Tunisian MPs, and the crackdown on migrants and human rights defenders in Tunisia.
Racism against migrants from (…)

Statement by the FTDES

Following an investigation launched by the Tunisian authorities against the Tunisian Forum on Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), Migreurop expresses its support by sharing the statement issued by the organisation. We strongly condemn these measures, which are part of a crackdown on civil society targeting human rights defenders and advocates for the rights of migrants in Tunisia.
Statement by the FTDES.
The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) hereby informs the (…)

A report authored by the group Researchers X, with the support of several organizations including ASGI (a member of Migreurop), and Border Forensics, led by Charles Heller (an individual member of the network), as well as The Routes Journal, On/borders, and MeltingPot, highlights the existence of a trafficking and torture network targeting sub-Saharan migrant women between Tunisia and Libya.
The report has been published on the website statetrafficking.net. It will be presented to the (…)

A collective initiative published on the Tunisian Solidarity platform

At the initiative of the FTDES and the FTCR, Migreurop is sharing this civic petition against racism calling for an anti-racist demonstration in Tunisia on Saturday, April 11, 2025.
"We, the undersigned citizens,
Given the rise of racist ideologies in Northern countries, supported by their governments, parts of their elites and their financial powers, racism for which migrants in general, including Tunisian, Arab and African migrants, pay the price through discrimination, exclusion, (…)