The actress Maty Sarr has since 2018 been working in Senegal with the volunteer network Migrants as Messengers (MaM) and running a theater group of returnees through the Senegalese Association for the Fight Against Irregular Migration (ASMI).
On Thursday, Spanish officials confirmed they found the bodies of three migrants off the south-eastern coast. Six people from the boat were rescued.
Tunisia has been going through a severe economic and political crisis in the last few years. More than one out of three young persons is unemployed. The route to Europe, which is lacking qualified personnel in many sectors, seems like the only way forward.
Italy's interior minister made some concillatory noises towards France but said that welcoming migrants 'had its limits' and that what was needed was a "new European policy." On Thursday, Italian police issued 18 arrest warrants against an alleged smuggling ring between Tunisia and Sicily.
Algerian TV reports that 16 people were killed after two pickup trucks collided in the south of the country. Among the victims were 13 Guineans, a Malian and two Algerians. Three people were also seriously injured.
A 14-year-old Sudanese refugee boy, Mazen, was abducted in August near his house in Warshafana, Libya. He was first held in a militia prison and he is currently detained in a juvenile prison in the Tajoura area, east of Tripoli. His father told ANSA that he still doesn't know why his son is being held and that the boy is in poor health.
Five boats carrying 72 migrants independently reached Mallorca and neighboring islands on Wednesday. The arrival of migrant boats on Spain's Balearic Islands is rare, but numbers have increased in recent years.
A 35-year-old Eritrean man wanted by Italian authorities on human trafficking charges has been arrested in Ethiopia and extradited to Italy. Ghebremedin Temeschen Ghebru was wanted for over a year as the alleged leader of a "transnational association operating between Central Africa, Maghreb countries, Italy and Northern Europe" for migrant trafficking, Italian police said.
The death toll from a shipwreck off Chebba last week has risen to 11, mostly Tunisians. 12 others are still missing.
Tunisian authorities confirmed on Monday that they had “intercepted or rescued” 657 migrants at sea over the weekend. The migrants in question had been trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean.
Mohamed Ali Chelbi, a young goalkeeper from the Tunisian team CS Sfaxien, made headlines when he chose to board a migrant boat to Italy at the weekend.
Italy's prime minister Mario Draghi visited Algeria on Monday. The summit was one in a long line of deepening relations between the two countries, which began most recently last November. Energy, migration and stability in the Mediterranean were on the agenda.