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Tunisia (pronounced al-Jumhūriyya at-Tūnisiyya), is the northernmost country in Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area is almost 165,000 km², with an estimated population of just over 10.3 million. Its name is derived from the capital Tunis located in the north-east. - Source: Wikipedia

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New interim Tunisia's Health Minister Sonia Ben Sheikh gives press conference in Tunis, Monday, March 11, 2019. Tunisia's interim health minister says 12 newborn babies have died after receiving treatment in a state maternity hospital amid a brewing scandal that led to the resignation of Health Minister Abderraouf Cherif this weekend. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

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Imen Triqui, one of the defense lawyers talks to the Associated Press outside the Hall of Justice in Tunis, Friday, Feb.8, 2019. More than 40 people have been summoned to face trial over Tunisia's deadliest attack in a Mediterranean resort in 2015 and the verdict in expected Friday Feb.8, 2019, more than 3-1/2 years after the attack on the Imperial Hotel in the beach resort of Sousse left 38 people dead, mostly British tourists (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

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Imen Triqui, one of the defense lawyers talks to the Associated Press outside the Hall of Justice in Tunis, Friday, Feb.8, 2019. More than 40 people have been summoned to face trial over Tunisia's deadliest attack in a Mediterranean resort in 2015 and the verdict in expected Friday Feb.8, 2019, more than 3-1/2 years after the attack on the Imperial Hotel in the beach resort of Sousse left 38 people dead, mostly British tourists (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

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FILE - In this Friday, June 26, 2015 file photo, covered bodies lie on a beach in Sousse, Tunisia. More than 30 people have been summoned to face trial over the Tunisia's deadliest attack in a Mediterranean resort. The trial is scheduled to reopen on Tuesday Jan.29, 2019 in Tunis, more than 3-1/2 years after the attack on the Imperial Hotel in the beach resort of Sousse left 38 people dead, mostly British tourists. (Jawhara FM via AP, File)

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Tunisian workers stage a protest in front of the national union headquarters in the capital Tunis, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. Workers around Tunisia are on strike to demand higher pay in a standoff with a government struggling to tame unemployment, poverty and social tensions. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

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A gagged Tunisian walks with an empty basket and a red card with a poster reading &quot;Red card to all politicians without exception&quot; during a demonstration to mark the eighth anniversary of the democratic uprising in Tunis, Monday, Jan.14, 2019. Tunisia is marking eight years since its democratic uprising amid deepening economic troubles and simmering anger at the revolution's unfulfilled promises. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

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Tunisian Police officers patrol after clashes in the streets of Kasserine, southern of Tunisia, Wednesday, Dec 26, 2018.The death of a Tunisian journalist Abderrak Zorgui who set himself on fire to protest economic problems in the North African nation prompted a protest that led to clashes with police and nationwide concern. (AP Photo/Walid Ben Sassi)

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Tunisian Police officers patrol after clashes in the streets of Kasserine, southern of Tunisia, Tuesday, Dec 25, 2018.The death of a Tunisian journalist Abderrak Zorgui who set himself on fire to protest economic problems in the North African nation prompted a protest that led to clashes with police and nationwide concern. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Salah)

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Tunisian Police officers patrol after clashes in the streets of Kasserine, southern of Tunisia, Tuesday, Dec 25, 2018.The death of a Tunisian journalist Abderrak Zorgui who set himself on fire to protest economic problems in the North African nation prompted a protest that led to clashes with police and nationwide concern. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Salah)

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Activists stage a protest in downtown Tunis, Tunisia, on the eve of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's official visit to Tunisia, to denounce the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

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FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 file photo, the casket of one of the migrants who died when their boat capsized off in the Canal of Sicily is lifted by crane to an Italian Navy ship at the Lampedusa island harbor. A fishing boat packed with 500 African migrants capsized on Thursday Oct. 3, 2013 off the shores of the island of Lampedusa, causing more than 300 deaths. (AP Photo/Mauro Buccarello)

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In this Thursday, April 12, 2018, file photo, mortuary workers carry the coffin of an unidentified man for burial at a cemetery outside Johannesburg. At least five bodies of unidentified people are buried on top of each other in each grave. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

The global lost: 56,800 migrants dead and missing in 4 years

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Tunisian forensic experts work on the scene of an attack after a 30-year-old woman blew herself on the Habib Bourguiba avenue in Tunis, Tunisia, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. A suicide bomber blew herself up on a busy Tunis avenue on Monday afternoon, killing herself and wounding many others, Tunisia's TAP news agency reported. (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi)

Female suicide bomber wounds 9 in Tunisia’s capital

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