A rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy was seized in Lampedusa on Sunday after Italy’s coast guard said the boat had disobeyed its instructions to head to Sicily after carrying out a migrant rescue operation.
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Despite treacherous conditions at sea, record numbers of migrants are setting off from North Africa to reach the European Union. This weekend alone, nearly 5,600 people arrived on Italy’s southern coasts, reported InfoMigrant website.
The Chief of Staff of Libya’s Western Region, Lieutenant General Mohamed al-Haddad, has signed a technical agreement with the Chief of Staff of the Italian Ministry of Defense, Admiral Cavo Dragone, to train the Special Forces of the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU).
Laurence Hart, the International Organization for Migration’s Italy and Malta director, announced that there has been a significant increase in…
Thirty people are missing and 17 were rescued in the central Mediterranean on Sunday after the boat in which they…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has praised Italy’s response to Europe’s irregular migration crisis in a letter to…
The Italian coast guard has recovered 43 bodies after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas on Sunday off the southern coast of Italy’s mainland, RAI state radio reported.
Emad Trabelsi, Interior Minister of Libya’s Government of National Unity, and his Italian counterpart Matteo Piantedosi launched in Rome today the work of joint task force between the two countries to coordinate on security and immigration, according to a statement by the Italian interior ministry.
As Europe resorts to desperate measures to contain a growing immigration crisis, the UN has condemned a move by Italy to enact stringent laws against NGOs and humanitarian groups involved in search and rescue (SAR) missions in the central Mediterranean.
More than 1,300 irregular migrants have reached Italy’s Lampedusa island over the past two days, local media reported on Saturday.