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Tunisia planning to evacuate its students from Ukraine
25 February 2022 10:25 GMT
Tunisia has said it is planning to evacuate its students in Ukraine through Poland and Romania.
The minister of health said that many had already reached Bucharest and the country had sent a plane for evacuation.
Thousands of students from the Middle East and North Africa have been left scrambling to find a way out of Ukraine after Russia invaded its neighbour.
Figures from the Ukraine education ministry show that Morocco has the second-largest foreign student contingent in Ukraine, with 8,000 students. India has the most.
Egypt has 3,500 students in Ukraine, while Lebanese, Iraqis and Palestinians also attend Ukrainian universities.
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