Dozens of migrants continue to wait on board the Ocean Viking ship, after Italy and Malta both refused to grant safe harbor to the private rescue vessel. SOS Mediterranee , which runs the Ocean Viking, said it had sent five requests to both countries over the past week, asking for the boat to dock.
A total of 28 rescued migrants have tested positive for the coronavirus on the Moby Zazà quarantine ship, which is off the Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle. They are among a group of 211 migrants who were rescued by the German charity Sea-Watch last week.
Joy is a young refugee in Italy who was the victim of superstition in Nigeria. The young woman, who now lives in Turin, was kidnapped from her home in Nigeria by men who wanted to sacrifice her because she was born with albinism.
Private migrant rescue vessels Sea-Watch 3 and Mare Jonio over the weekend disembarked close to 300 migrants on the Italian island of Sicily. The arrivals in Italy were the first of their kind since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
An Italian prosecutor's office has upheld jail sentences imposed on six individuals of Italian and Tunisian nationality that ran ''luxury'' trips between Tunisia and Sicily for migrants. The ruse was discovered in a 2017 operation against clandestine migration.
The provincial healthcare department in the southern Italian city of Syracuse has set up a medical unit for seasonal farmworkers in the region. One of the goals: To prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Salif, a 31-year-old migrant from West Africa arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in the beginning of April. From there he was transferred to Sicily where he says he and nine other migrants have been left to live on the streets. This is his story.
On Saturday, 79 migrants rescued by the cargo ship Marina St Johns last week were able to disembark in Sicily ahead of a 14-day quarantine period. About 162 migrants are still waiting on other ships at sea with no word on when, or where, they might disembark.
Police and the authorities are scouring the coasts in Sicily on Wednesday after reports of another "ghost landing" of migrants came ashore on the south-western coast at Torre Salsa nature reserve. 29 people have so far been found but police suspect the boat contained "around 50".
A 14-day quarantine period has ended for the migrants aboard the Rubattino ferry moored off the coast of Palermo. The migrants, who have all tested negative for the novel coronavirus, are expected to leave the ship on Monday.
Sicily has blocked the transfer of 244 migrants who were quarantined for 14 days at a hotspot in Pozzallo after landing on the island. The decision comes after "ordinary" movements of people to and from the island on ferries and road and rail transport were suspended on March 16 to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
An Italian court has ordered the seized sailboat Alex Mediterranea to be released. The ship of the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans was confiscated last July after it had rescued 59 people in the Mediterranean.