{"id":247702,"date":"2023-12-09T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=247702"},"modified":"2023-12-09T08:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:55:52","slug":"tunisia-intercepted-over-69000-illegal-immigrants-trying-to-reach-italian-coast-in-past-11-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=247702","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia Intercepted Over 69,000 Illegal Immigrants Trying To Reach Italian Coast In Past 11 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TUNIS, Dec 9 (NNN-TAP) &#8211; Over the past eleven months, Tunisia has foiled attempts of more than 69,000 illegal immigrants, trying to sneak into Italy from the Tunisian coasts, the country&#8217;s private radio station, Shems FM, reported yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A total of 55,200 individuals of these illegal immigrants were rescued from sinking boats, 55 percent of whom were from different African countries,&#8221; Shems FM quoted Houcemeddine Jbabli, spokesman for the Tunisian National Guard, as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of these attempts were thwarted along the coast of Tunisia&#8217;s south-eastern province of Sfax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coast of Sfax is a major starting point for illegal immigrants, heading for the Italian island of Lampedusa, located only about 80 km away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Tunisian authorities have adopted rigorous measures to tackle the problem, the number of illegal immigrants heading to Italy has been on the rise.&#8211; NNN-TAP   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS, Dec 9 (NNN-TAP) &#8211; Over the past eleven months, Tunisia has foiled attempts of more than 69,000 illegal immigrants, trying to sneak into Italy from the Tunisian coasts, the country&#8217;s private radio station, Shems FM, reported yesterday. &#8220;A total of 55,200 individuals of these illegal immigrants were rescued from sinking boats, 55 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247703,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247702\/revisions\/247703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}