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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia recovered the bodies of four migrants off the country’s coast on Saturday, the national guard said, amid an increase in migrant boats heading from Tunisia toward Italy in recent weeks. The force said the coast guard separately rescued 52 migrants.‮ ‬The national guard arrested nine smugglers, and boats were seized. At …

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – At least one person was killed and six injured when fierce clashes broke out on Saturday in the city of Zawiya in western Libya, prompting calls for a ceasefire to rescue families trapped in the conflict area, a Libyan TV channel said. Ali Ahneesh, head of the Red Crescent branch in Zawiya, …

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Search and rescue efforts were underway in South Africa on Saturday to find 11 fishermen missing at sea after their vessel sunk off the coast of Cape Town, the fisheries department said. Nine fishermen who had managed to deploy an emergency craft were rescued, the department said in a statement. “Our thoughts …

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TUNIS (Reuters) – About 23 migrants were missing after setting off in a boat from Tunisia towards Italy, the country’s national guard said on Saturday. Tunisia is facing a migration crisis and has replaced Libya as a main departure point for people fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa and the Middle East in the hope …

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(Reuters) – Libya’s eastern-based authorities are investigating the disappearance of a member of parliament, the region’s interior ministry said, and it did not believe he had been killed. The House of Representatives (HoR) member for Benghazi, Ibrahim Aldrasi, is missing after a robbery at his home, the media manager of the ministry said in a …

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