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Forty-one people are believed dead after a migrant boat capsized off Tunisia

Four people rescued say vessel had set off from Sfax in Tunisia and had taken on water in stormy conditions

Country’s interior minister has called images of dead refugees ‘fake’, as EU ignores criticism of deal with Tunisia.

Migrants in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax who are aiming to make Europe their new home are now sharing the burden and the blame for escalating tensions deeply tinged with racism amid the fears of European leaders who are trying to stanch the numbers of people arriving at their shores

The EU has promised Tunisia $280m in aid. But on the country’s frontiers, refugees and migrants are still stranded.

Dozens of refugees left without water or food in the desert after being expelled from Tunisia following racial tensions.

About 70 refugees, including women and children, are stuck in a ten-metre buffer zone they call ‘point zero’.

Tunisia claims to have evacuated groups of refugees it had expelled to its border, but many remain.

Migrant rescue group says it has lost contact with a large group of Black African migrants expelled from Tunisia.

Aid agencies say hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are being transferred back to Tunisia after being pushed into a dangerous no-man’s-land on the Libyan border

More than 1,000 people were bussed to borders with Libya, Algeria – and left with no food, water, shelter or way out.