A recent investigation by Lighthouse Reports has uncovered evidence that Italy and Frontex were involved in a cover-up relating to information which possibly could have prevented the February 2023 Cutro shipwreck.
A boat carrying 500 people, including a newborn baby born on board, has been pushed back to Libya, where passengers are allegedly imprisoned in Benghazi, according to Alarm Phone.
An Italian court has declared a decree restricting sea rescue unlawful. The decree issued by the Italian government stipulates that only the migrants most in need of protection from a rescue ship are allowed to go ashore.
At least eight migrants have died after their boat – carrying at least 150 migrants – capsized off Libya. The Libyan Red Crescent is still searching for 58 others.
Tunisian authorities say they rescued a group of 108 migrants from their sinking boats on New Year's Eve. The number of migrants attempting the dangerous crossing from North Africa to Italy has been on the rise in recent months.
Four people died after their boat sunk in the middle of the Channel on December 13. Undeterred by this latest tragedy, migrants in the Loon-Plage camp in northern France are determined to reach the English shore.
A teenager was among the four people who died when a migrant boat capsized in the English Channel on Wednesday, a regional official said. Of the 39 survivors, a dozen were unaccompanied children who have been taken into care in Kent.
Charges against two navy officers in a case involving the death of 268 migrants, including 60 children, off Lampedusa nine years ago have timed out under the statute of limitations. Prosecutors had requested their acquittal.
One of the few survivors of a migrant shipwreck that took place off the Syrian coastline in September has been released and repatriated to Lebanon after he was detained by Syrian authorities.
Around 260 people were rescued on Monday in the eastern Aegean Sea by coast guard units in Greece and Turkey, authorities in the two countries said.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Greece have reiterated their plea for the EU to create "safe pathways" in European waterways in the wake of two more shipwreck tragedies in Greece.
"There are two things we cannot choose: life and death," said Ibrahim, a survivor of a shipwreck in the Mediterranean that claimed the lives of his wife and brother. The Ivorian national was transered to a migrant hotspot in Lampedusa.