Tunisian security forces put some migrants in shelters to avoid vengeance attacks, while some 200 others headed to the Sfax train station to escape to Tunis, the capital, according to Radio Mosaique. Migrants reported being taken to an isolated beach near Libya's border with armed men from both countries on each side. A 29-year-old man from Ivory Coast said he was among 600 sub-Saharan migrants caught in what he described as a “no-man's land” between the Mediterranean Sea and the Tunisian-Libyan land border near Ben Guerdane. The man spoke to the AP Wednesday and Thursday surrounded by other Black migrants including women and small children. He also claimed that Libyan security at the border fired shots into the air to keep them at bay.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 07, 2023 08:36 UTC