Libya

• Tunisia
• Libya
• Italy

Two NGO vessels have saved some 250 migrants from distress in the Mediterranean Sea over two days. The number of arrivals to Italy via the central Mediterranean, at present one of the most dangerous migration paths in the world, continues to rise.

• Libya

Yet another boat carrying African migrants has capsized off Libya's coast. This time, at least 57 people are presumed dead, the UN migration agency said. More than 1,100 people have perished in the Mediterranean so far this year.

• Bangladesh
• Libya
• Tunisia

At least 17 Bengali migrants have drowned in a shipwreck off the Tunisian coast as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy from Libya. Some reports say that the number of deaths may yet rise.

• Italy
• Libya

The organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) has denounced the atrocities endured by migrants inside detention centers in Libya, citing the stories recently reported by five migrants in Ragusa, Sicily.

• Libya
• Italy

Italian lawmakers have approved renewed funding to train Libya's coast guard. The vote came just one day after the release of a report outlining the violence that migrants rescued by the coast guard face in Libyan detention centers.

• Tunisia
• Libya
• Greece

In the first six months of 2021, the number of migrants who died at sea in an attempt to reach Europe more than doubled compared to the same period in 2020, according to UN migration agency IOM. Most migrants died on the central Mediterranean route or en route to Spain's Canaries.

• Libya
• Italy

Migrant rights activists staged a protest in Rome because of a vote to renew Italy's cooperation with Libyan authorities. They demanded Italy stop funding and training Libya's coast guard, given that migrants returned to Libya face severe human rights abuses.

• Libya

Amnesty said it found new evidence of "harrowing violations, including sexual violence, against men, women and children" living in Libyan detention camps after being returned from the Mediterranean.

• Libya
• Malta

Three men were found dead on board a boat carrying 81 other migrants that was rescued by Malta early on Wednesday. The charity Sea-Watch has claimed that authorities purposely delayed the rescue.

• Libya

The Libyan port city of Zouara has issued a deadline for migrants. They are called upon to officially regularize their situation or they will be at risk of expulsion from the city. The Libyan municipality justified its decision by blaming it on a "raised crime rate".

• Libya
• Italy

The Ocean Viking arrived in Sicily on Friday morning to disembark over 500 migrants it has on board. The crew and migrants had been waiting for a week to be assigned a safe port. Food and water were about to run out when they were assigned a port on Thursday evening.

• Libya

Amadi*, a 24-year-old Malian, contacted InfoMigrants to tell us about his experiences in one of Libya's state prisons. Violence against migrants in these detention centers has been well-documented and condemned, yet it continues.