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.
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Libya InfoMigrants, ‘Mediterranean: 2,500 migrants intercepted at sea and forcibly returned to Libya since the start of 2026’, 12 March 2026
Since the beginning of 2026, more than 2,500 migrants have been intercepted in the Mediterranean by the Libyan coastguard and forcibly returned to Libya. These interceptions are carried out on the basis of an agreement concluded in 2017 between Italy and Libya, which provides for logistical and financial support from Italy and the European Union to (…)

Egypt InfoMigrants, ’In Egypt, arrests of African refugees are increasing as part of a widespread crackdown,’ 25 February 2026
Egypt has launched a campaign of arrests and deportations of migrant people in an effort to halt arrivals. Nearly 5,000 migrants have been detained in police stations for reasons related solely to immigration and several human rights organisations have denounced the ill-treatment and violence suffered in these places of deprivation of liberty.
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Libya L’Orient-le-Jour, “21 bodies of sub-Saharan migrants discovered in a mass grave”, 15 January 2026
In Libya, 21 bodies of migrants were discovered in mid-January in a mass grave in Ajdabiya, in the north-east of the country. According to local authorities, the victims were being held in a farm that had been converted into a detention centre for people on the move. Several survivors, found in critical condition, helped locate the mass grave.
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On 14 January, a peaceful protest by 175 asylum seekers detained in Harmondsworth and Brook House detention centers in England was violently repressed by law enforcement. The detainees were protesting inhumane detention conditions and their removal to France under the “One in, one out” agreement signed during the summer 2025. Following this event, the detainees wrote reports and an open letter to the European civil society demanding to access their fundamental rights. Migreurop is publishing (…)