The 17 survivors of a deadly boat disaster off the coast of Libya arrived on Monday in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo. The Sea Watch NGO continues to blame the Italian government for the tragedy.
More than 400 migrants were intercepted by the Tunisian coast guard over the weekend. Other boats leaving Tunisia did arrive on the Italian coast in the last few days however, including one containing a top-flight Tunisian footballer.
Between Friday and Sunday, 288 migrants disembarked three NGO ships in Italy. More than 1,000 migrants were also rescued by the Italian authorities or arrived by sea on Italy's southern coasts.
One in five places in Italian reception centers was empty as of December 2021, a report by ActionAid has found. The numbers confirm the non-existence of a reception emergency, a rhetoric which has been revived recently, the organization said.
A New Year's Eve party at a club on the Italian island of Sicily ended in violence: A young Tunisian man was beaten to death after he allegedly made inappropriate comments to a girl. The suspects – three Romanians – were arrested.
Fatima was born on Lampedusa this week. Her mother, from Ivory Coast, was among 43 people rescued off the Pelagian islands by the coast guard. Hours earlier, two-year-old Rokia, had died following a shipwreck.
21-day-old Godan Raim Bahie from Ivory Coast died from hypothermia as his family was trying to cross the Central Mediterranean. Over 80 children have died at sea this year, en route to Europe. Faced with an increase in migrant arrivals, Italian authorities are struggling to find humane solutions.
A boat reportedly carrying 149 migrants arrived on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Thursday. It was the second one to arrive that day. More than 1,200 people are now in the reception hotspot on the island.
A new film in Italy, Tra le Onde (Amid the waves), uses fiction to look at the issue of immigration in the Mediterranean.
A four-year-old girl who reached Italy without her parents on a boat carrying migrants from Tunisia in October was repatriated on Thursday, authorities said. A judge in Sicily ruled she should be returned on a request by Tunisian authorities.
Albert Kalenda Kabongo is originally from Congo. He now lives in Sicily and works as a cultural mediator for the Sicilian region. He has also just been chosen as one of a handful of migrant entrepreneurs who will be backed by the region to start their own business.
More than 10,000 unaccompanied minors have already arrived in Italy by boat since the beginning of 2022. At least 30% reside in Sicily, and are looked after by various projects until they become adults. InfoMigrants visited two such projects in Palermo.