Tunisian security forces have committed "serious abuses" against black African migrants, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, calling on the European Union to suspend migration control funding to the country.

A baby’s body that washed up on a Spanish beach near the Mediterranean city of a week ago is that of a migrants’ daughter from a shipwreck that killed all the 15 people aboard in April, police said on Tuesday.

Amid racial tensions sparked by the death of a 41-year-old Tunisian man, rights groups say the Tunisian government is carrying out a “purging” of the city of any person of sub-Saharan origin.

The construction industry, which is largely dependent on migrant labor, is one of the sector's most devastated by the dual impact of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic.