The m is part of a larger aid package being offered by the International Monetary Fund IMF. Tunisia has not yet agreed to the terms of how exactly the money should be spent. The UN reported that in the first six months of this year people were picked up by the Italian or Tunisian coast guard a figure close to double the numberwho attempted the crossing during the whole of . It has also been an exceptionally perilous start to the year with the loss of more than lives according to the UN.
The coast guards were met with a wave of anger as the passengers began to disembark from the migrant boat that had been towed. Let me go to Italy one man shouted. Ill only try again screamed another. All hailing from Ivory Coast and Guinea they told us it was their third and even fourth Mobile App Development Service attempt to cross this stretch of sea. The Tunisian coast guards speed boat seizes yet another vessel.
This time an inflatable dinghy IMAGE SOURCEBBC ZAID ABBOUR Image caption speed boat seizes yet another vessel this time an inflatable dinghy Although we were allowed to witness everything that went on during the operation the crew on board had been told not to answer any of our questions. Instead their spokesman Hossam ElDin ElJababli spoke to us once we were back at the port. There are those who threaten to throw themselves back overboard.