A little under 700 people arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa early on Tuesday. The reception facility on the island, designed to accommodate around 250, is full to capacity and the mayor of the island has asked for help.
Humanitarian rescue organizations are accusing a supply ship, the Vos Triton, of participating in what they call an "illegal pushback" to Libya, in which migrants rescued from a drifting boat were handed over to the Libyan coast guard.
The humanitarian rescue ship Geo Barents, run by the organization Doctors without Borders (MSF), is now searching for a safe harbor in which to disembark the 410 migrants it rescued in the central Mediterranean over the last few days.
UN officials intercepted over 1,000 migrants in one day off the coast of North Africa attempting a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea towards Europe.
Five years after the creation of the "Cemetery of the Unknown", the southern Tunisian coastal town of Zarzis has inaugurated its second migrant cemetery to honor the many people who have lost their lives while attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Europe. The Jardin d’Afrique, or Africa’s Garden, was designed and created by the Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi, and is already filling up at an alarming speed.
During Luigi Di Maio's visit to Niger this week, the Italian foreign minister and his Nigerien colleague Hassoumi Massoudou signed a joint declaration, saying they want to strengthen their cooperation on migration issues.
The humanitarian rescue ship Aita Mari disembarked 50 migrants in the Sicilian port of Augusta on June 1. All COVID tests from the migrants on board resulted negative, said the organization that runs the ship.
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.
Due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian rescue efforts and pushbacks to Libya, the EU shares blame for the deaths of hundreds of migrants traveling across the Mediterranean route, a United Nations report finds.
Two Senegalese fishermen, who have been working legally in Italy for some time on board a fishing boat in Lampedusa, watch surprised as thousands of other migrants file past them in the hope of a better life in Europe.
The IOM has confirmed that at least 17 migrants are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean on Wednesday evening. Their ship, which is thought to have departed from Libya, got into difficulty off the Tunisian coast. Two women were rescued.
The search and rescue ship Geo Barents will launch a new operation in the Mediterranean, Doctors Without Borders has announced. The ship will reportedly have several rooms onboard to provide medical assistance to rescued migrants, including pregnant women.