{"id":26873,"date":"2023-04-27T15:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/04\/27\/tunisian-city-of-sfax-becomes-hub-for-migrant-crossings-to-italy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T15:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:01:53","slug":"tunisian-city-of-sfax-becomes-hub-for-migrant-crossings-to-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/04\/27\/tunisian-city-of-sfax-becomes-hub-for-migrant-crossings-to-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian city of Sfax becomes hub for migrant crossings to Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Tunisia, the number of migrants leaving for Italy has increased since the start of the year. Coastguard officials in the southeastern Sfax region say there&rsquo;s been a 300 percent increase compared to 2022. The region has over 150 kilometres of coastline and Sfax is also the country&rsquo;s economic capital, but it&rsquo;s now become a hub for crossings for both Tunisians and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. President Kais Saied&rsquo;s racially charged speech on February 21 targeting Black migrants has pushed more of them to attempt the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. Our correspondents report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tunisia, the number of migrants leaving for Italy has increased since the start of the year. Coastguard officials in the southeastern Sfax region say there&rsquo;s been a 300 percent increase compared to 2022. The region has over 150 kilometres of coastline and Sfax is also the country&rsquo;s economic capital, but it&rsquo;s now become a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-26873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}