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).
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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.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said 163 migrants were intercepted off the coast of Libya in the past week.
A fishing boat with 573 migrants landed on Lampedusa, Italy on Monday after being rescued off the island by Coast Guard patrol boats, Italian ANSA News reported.
Since the beginning of the year, an average of eight people lost their lives or went missing each day while trying to cross the central Mediterranean towards Italy, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Recent data issued by the Italian Ministry of the Interior revealed the arrival of 47,300 irregular migrants from Libya, since the beginning of 2023.