migrant boat

• United Kingdom
• France

France and Britain are deploying more police and hi-tech surveillance equipment on the French northern coast to make small boat Channel crossings more difficult. Rights groups in Calais say that similar measures last year failed to stem the number of crossings, while migrants insist that they are prepared to take desperate measures to reach the UK. InfoMigrants reports.

• United Kingdom

Two children were among more than 120 migrants who were rescued on Monday as they were trying to cross the English Channel from France. The migrants were brought to safety by French authorities.

• Canary Islands
• Morocco
• Spain

Almost 2,100 migrants are estimated to have died trying to reach Spain by sea during the first half of 2021. The death toll is close to figures for the entire previous year, according to the non-governmental organization Caminando Fronteras.

• United Kingdom

212 migrants were picked up by the UK Border Force on Sunday. An additional 238 migrants were reportedly prevented by French authorities from completing their crossing. The latest figures come as the UK prepares to debate a new nationality and border bill in parliament.

• Libya

The non-profit sea rescue group Sea-Watch on June 30 said it witnessed the Libyan coast guard fire live ammunition at a migrant boat in an apparent effort to stop the crowded boat from crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe.

• Spain
• Canary Islands

Forty-five people, among them several children, were rescued on Sunday and brought to shore on Gran Canaria, the largest of Spain’s Canary Island archipelago in the Atlantic.

• Gibraltar
• Netherlands
• France

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.

• Ethiopia
• Djibouti
• Yemen

A boat thought to have been carrying between 160 and 200 people overturned at the weekend off the coast of Yemen. The bodies of 25 migrants have already been recovered and as many as 175 migrants are still missing.

• Libya
• Italy
• Malta

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.

• United Kingdom
• France

More and more migrants are attempting to cross the English Channel from France to the United Kingdom, despite the UK's increasingly harsh policies and joint efforts to curb migration.

• France
• United Kingdom

British Home Secretary Priti Patel has urged TikTok and other social media platforms to remove posts which she says promote illegal migration.

• Libya
• Tunisia

At least 23 migrants have been found dead in a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia. Seventy of their fellow passengers were rescued by the Tunisian navy, according to an NGO.