At least 30 people including women and children who went missing in a shipwreck on Monday in the Mediterranean have likely died. Medical charity MSF, whose crew saved 71 people, called the scene the "worst nightmare coming true."
Three private migrant rescue ships carrying more than 500 people are waiting for a safe port in the Central Mediterranean. A fourth humanitarian vessel, the Nadir, has disembarked 19 migrants in Italy.
The rescue organization Sea-Watch’s newest edition to its fleet, the Aurora, rescued 85 migrants on Sunday night. Late on Monday, the organization announced they were already due to disembark on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
The humanitarian rescue ship Ocean Viking has received the green light to disembark in Sicily 294 persons rescued from distress at sea. Some of the survivors have been holding out on the ship for ten days and nights.
Malta's migrant centers are steadily emptying out partly due to a drop in the number of sea arrivals since 2020. The island has drastically decreased its search and rescue activities, a European report says.
Two groups of migrants were rescued from the Central Mediterranean Sea by the Ocean Viking ship on Thursday. Hundreds of others due to disembark from the Geo Barents in Sicily were forced to remain on board without explanation.
A court in Sicily is set to decide whether to go ahead with a case against four crew members of the migrant rescue ship, Iuventa. The four German activists and 17 others are accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
Hundreds of migrants on board the Geo Barents rescue ship were still awaiting permission to disembark on Tuesday. The crew says it has made seven requests to the Italian authorities, and some of those on board are seriously ill.
Migrants have been arriving on Spain’s Canary Islands at a staggering pace in recent days. While most were rescued at sea, some actually managed to arrive on the archipelago of their own accord.
Three private rescue ships in the Mediterranean are now waiting for ports in which to disembark the more than 500 migrants they collectively rescued. Sea-Watch 4 has 145 on board, the Geo Barents 470, and 34 people are on deck the Sea-Eye 4.
Early Wednesday morning, Libya’s coast guard reportedly issued numerous threats against the rescue ship Sea-Eye 4 in the Mediterranean, urging it to leave "Libyan territory." However, Sea-Eye says that the vessel was in international waters at the time, where ships are allowed to move freely.
After more than a week on board the rescue ship 'Geo Barents', 101 people have been allowed to disembark in Italy. Nearly 300 others, many of them minors, are still waiting at sea on the Ocean Viking rescue vessel.