Fatoumata Bamba was a 26-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast. She arrived in Lampedusa in the morning on February 18 after crossing the Mediterranean with her husband from Sfax, Tunisia, in a small iron boat. 13 hours later, she was dead. Could hear death have been avoided?
A migrant center near the Franco-Italian border is saturated with sub-Saharan migrants fleeing Tunisia's xenophobic policy and other exiles who stay because of the excessively high-priced train tickets to Paris.
The new Prefect of Agrigento, the Sicilian region that includes the island of Lampedusa, pledged to beef up intervention on the island in his inauguration speech on Tuesday (May 23).
This weekend more than 1,000 migrants arrived in Italy after crossing the Mediterranean. Since the beginning of the year, arrivals have increased month on month and are far greater than in the two previous years. InfoMigrants takes a look at why.
The Tunisian authorities said they recovered the bodies of 14 migrants in the space of 24 hours off the coast of the country. Flavio Di Giacomo of the UN migration agency has warned that more migrants are attempting the journey in precarious metal boats, making the crossing even more dangerous.
The cumulative total of migrant fatalities at sea was unprecedented over such a short period, Tunisia's National Guard has declared. The deaths of mostly sub-Saharan Africans come amid an ongoing spike in migration northwards.
A Tunisian fishing boat reportedly attempted to steal the engine of the migrant boat near the Italian island of Lampedusa. There were 34 people on board during the incident.
Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi visited Lampedusa following several shipwrecks near the island. He promised local officials that a dedicated task force would be put together to deal with the large number of migrant arrivals. The hotspot on the island houses more than 2,500 people even though it was built for just 400.
More than 20 people are missing after attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa. Hundreds of others were rescued and brought to Italy by the coast guard and the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship.
Almost 1,000 migrants heading to Italy were rescued on Sunday (April 16) amid an ongoing surge of arrivals. A new commissioner has been tasked with taking care of arrivals - but solutions to stem the migrant influx seem elusive.
The Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) criticized the country's declaration of a state of emergency on migration. Meanwhile, new migration measures introduced by the Meloni government will be discussed in the Senate this week.
The Italian government is asking for EU funding to relocate migrants from the overcrowded island of Lampedusa across the Italian mainland after declaring a state of emergency on Tuesday.