Tunisia: 13 Sudanese migrants dead in shipwreck, 27 missing. 42 Sudanese were in a makeshift boat; there were only two survivors.
Tunisia is, with Libya, the main departure point for thousands of migrants seeking to reach Europe illegally. More than 2,270 people died in 2023 in the central Mediterranean while trying to reached Europe clandestinely.. Nearly 70,000 illegal immigrants in the first eleven months of 2023. The number of candidates for illegal emigration intercepted by the Tunisian authorities stood at 69,963 people.