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• Libya

A UN agency reported that the bodies of three children washed ashore in Libya last week. The children are believed to have been part of a group of migrants bound for Europe.

• Bangladesh
• Tunisia

At least 50 people disappeared, feared drowned, off the coast of Tunisia. Authorities said that 33 others were rescued by workers from an oil platform in the Mediterranean Sea.

• Libya

A child was among at least five people who drowned at the weekend when a boat carrying about 45 migrants capsized off Libya. More than 700 migrants were intercepted and returned by Libyan coast guards.

• Sudan
• Libya

Bilal*, a Sudanese migrant in Libya, knew victims of the April 22 shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. On that day, 130 people are believed to have died at sea as a result of the failure of Libyan and European maritime rescue services as well as complicated weather conditions. After the tragedy, Bilal spoke with InfoMigrants.

• Libya

Up to 130 migrants are feared dead after a shipwreck off the Libyan coast. While some have accused Libya of ignoring the plight of migrants at sea, the government said it tried its best to locate the missing boat.

• Ethiopia
• Somalia
• Djibouti

At least 39 people have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti in East Africa. The UN migration agency IOM said 16 of the victims were children.

• Spain
• Morocco

Moroccan and sub-Saharan African migrants regularly attempt to swim to the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla from neighboring Moroccan ports. But a crossing even a hundred meters from the shore is risky. Four people drowned in March 2021.

• Djibouti
• Yemen

At least 20 migrants died on Wednesday after smugglers threw them overboard during a voyage from Djibouti to Yemen, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). It's the third such incident in the Gulf of Aden in six months.

• Somalia
• Greece

The body of a second migrant has been located in waters off the Greek island of Lesbos after a boat carrying more than 30 people sank. On Wednesday a young woman's body was recovered by the Greek coast guard.

• Greece

At least one man has drowned after a migrant dinghy sank off the Greek island of Rhodes. Coast guard authorities said the boat had set off from the Turkish coast.

• Spain
• Malta
• Italy

For migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya towards Europe on Tuesday, November 10, it was literally a matter of life and death. News agencies reported that 13 people drowned off the Libyan coast, and on a different boat 88 people were rescued and transferred to the humanitarian rescue ship Open Arms.

• Libya

The IOM reported that at least 11 migrants, including a pregnant woman, have drowned on Sunday when their boat capsized off the coast of Libya trying to reach Europe. The incident was the third of its kind in the Mediterranean in a week.