244 women, men and children rescued from 3 boats in distress in off Libyan shores have arrived in the Italian port city of Bari, announced SOS Méditerranée on Saturday.
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The Interior Ministry in Tripoli has announced the interception of 278 migrants of various nationalities in two separate operations, who were handed over to the Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency.
Three groups of migrants and refugees respectively numbering 68, 15 and 54 people (137 in total) landed on Lampedusa, Italy between midnight and dawn on Wednesday morning, Italian ANSA reported.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday that “diminishing NGO-led efforts on the Central Mediterranean route have been important factors leading to the loss of more lives.”
The death of 61 people, who drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libyan shores during the night between 14 and 15 December, is “the direct result of Europe’s migration policies”, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
More than 60 migrants are believed to have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
Close to 70,000 migrants were intercepted trying to cross the Mediterranean from Tunisia to Italy this year, more than double the 2022 figure, the Tunisian National Guard told AFP on Saturday.
The organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) published a report on December 6 on the inhuman conditions of thousands of people detained in the collection centers of Tripoli in Libya.
The German Ministry of the Interior has proposed a draft amendment to its Residency Act to redefine what constitutes human trafficking into the EU—a move which could criminalize the work of ‘search and rescue’ NGOs operating on the Mediterranean Sea, EU Observer wrote.
Alarm Phone NGO has announced it lost contact with forty two people in distress near Malta.