Why are Tunisians fleeing their country?
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The sudden flow of North African migrants to Italy continues.
Authorities in Italy have intercepted a boat carrying about 30 people, reportedly from Egypt, off the coast of Sicily.
More than 5,000 Tunisian immigrants have reached the Italian island of Lampedusa - also by boat - in the past week.
The upsurge follows last month's mass protests over unemployment and poverty in Tunisia which resulted in the overthrow of President Ben Ali.
BBC Focus on Africa's Joseph Warungu spoke to our reporter Jim Muir who is in Tunisia.
Broadcast on Tuesday 15 February 2011
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