The crew of the Geo Barents said it has rescued 71 migrants in the Central Mediterranean. At least one person reportedly died and 22 people remain missing. Meanwhile, the Sea-Watch 4 has been given the green light to disembark more than 300 rescued migrants in Italy; and 59 rescued migrants have left the Louise Michel.
More than 470 migrants have disembarked from the ship Sea-Eye 4 in the port of Messina, in Sicily. Another 112 people rescued in the Mediterranean by the Spanish vessel Aita Mari also began disembarking on the Italian island.
The UN Migration Agency (IOM) has confirmed that Libyan authorities brought at least 590 migrants back to Libya in just under a week. Meanwhile, the Moroccan Navy says it has rescued 105 migrants in the last few days.
Nearly 950 undocumented Tunisian migrants, including 354 minors, arrived in Italy in the month of May, reports an NGO in Tunisia. That's an increase of more than 50% on last year's numbers.
In the last few days, Tunisian authorities have recovered the bodies of at least 16 migrants. On Monday, the coast guard said it had retrieved the bodies of four migrants.
More than 800 people rescued from the Mediterranean by three private ships were waiting to disembark on Monday. Other migrants were brought ashore in Italy at the weekend, as Alarm Phone warned a boat carrying around 30 was in distress and another was missing.
After a series of rescues, the Sea-Eye 4 has 492 migrants on board. Meanwhile, almost 500 migrants arrived on Lampedusa in the last couple of days.
Tunisian mothers whose children went missing when trying to cross the Mediterranean will gather on June 18 to tell their stories, as part of the Migrant Stories project by the Italian poet Laura Fusco.
Two private rescue ships, the Sea-Eye 4 and the Aita Mari, have carried out rescues relatively close to each other not too far off the Libyan and Tunisian coasts. Sea-Eye 4 rescued 63 migrants on Tuesday and Aita Mari carried out a rescue on Wednesday of 17.
One migrant is still missing and at least four people have died after a migrant boat capsized off the southern coast of Spain on Wednesday. At least 12 people survived the shipwreck. They were rescued by a nearby merchant ship and the emergency services.
Lebanese military personnel have reportedly arrested 64 migrants during an attempt to sail to Europe from the north of the country. More people are seeking to leave the small Middle Eastern country to look for a better life in Europe.
There are 356 migrants on board the Sea-Watch 3 rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea at the moment after a series of multiple rescues over the weekend. The latest took place on June 6, when 49 migrants were picked up south of Lampedusa.