Tunisia vows to avoid "transit zone" status, repatriates 10,000 illegal migrants in 2025

He said that Tunisia has reiterated to its European partners that, "it will not become a transit zone."

Tunisia repatriated about 7,200 illegal migrants in 2024 under the same initiative, according to official data, and aims to continue returning the remaining migrants until, "the phenomenon is eliminated," it has said.