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Twenty-seven missing, 13 dead after Sudanese migrant ship sinks off Tunisian coast

Twenty-seven missing, 13 dead after Sudanese migrant ship sinks off Tunisian coast

THE bodies of 13 Sudanese migrants have been recovered and 27 others are missing after a boat sank off the coast of Tunisia having set off from Sfax, a Tunisian judicial official said. The boat was carrying 42 people, all of them Sudanese, and two people were rescued, the judge Farid Ben Jha said. Tunisia replaced Libya as North Africa's main departure point for people fleeing poverty and conflict elsewhere in Africa and across the Middle East in the hope of a better life in Europe. The country has seen a record wave of migration since last year, with frequent…
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