Tunisia's unprecedented crackdown on sea migrants.

Tunisian authorities have intercepted migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy and have stopped 372 people in just 14 hours using speedboats. Migrants, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, are undertaking the perilous journey in unprecedented numbers. In the first three months of this year, 13,000 migrants were forced from their boats off the eastern Tunisian port city of Sfax, the main launching point. Between 2021 and 2022, the number of migrants heading to Europe, mostly to Italy but also to Malta, nearly doubled.