Tag: Mediterranean

Italy Kept Humanitarian NGOs Away From Migrant Rescue Zones for Over 2 Years
Since January 2023, rescue ships owned by these NGOs have been immobilized for 640 days. On Wednesday, the organization SOS Mediterranee presented a report showing that humanitarian NGOs stayed away from migrant rescue zones in the central Mediterranean for 735 days. RELATED: Mediterranean Sea Becomes Mass Grave as UNICEF Reports Over 2,200 Migrants Dead or […]
February 12, 2025

Italy Denies Ocean Viking the Landing of 45 Migrants in Sardinia
The authorities instructed the humanitarian ship to disembark them at the ‘remote port’ of Genoa. On Thursday, the Ocean Viking ship dropped off 40 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean on the island of Sardinia but Italian authorities did not allow it to disembark another 45 people. RELATED: Mediterranean Sea Becomes Mass Grave as UNICEF Reports […]
January 23, 2025

27 Sub-Saharan Migrants Die in Shipwreck Off Tunisia
Authorities managed to save 83 people after the sinking of two precarious boats. In the past 24 hours, the Tunisian National Guard and Civil Protection recovered 27 bodies of migrants and rescued 83 people after the sinking of two precarious boats in the Mediterranean carrying 110 citizens from sub-Saharan countries. RELATED: 20 Migrants Missing After […]
January 2, 2025

20 Migrants Missing After Shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea
Among the survivors is an eight-year-old Syrian boy who lost his mother in the shipwreck. On Wednesday, Italian authorities are searching for 20 missing migrants—including five women and three children—following a shipwreck last night in the Central Mediterranean near the island of Lampedusa. RELATED: 15 Migrants Drowned in the Mediterranean Despite Calls for Help Search […]
January 1, 2025

Over 10,400 Migrants Died in 2024 Trying to Reach Spain
Among them were 421 women and 1,538 children or adolescents. On Thursday, the NGO Walking Borders (Caminando Fronteras) published “Right to Life Monitoring 2024,” a report showing that 10,457 migrants died in 2024 while attempting to reach Spanish shores. Among them were 421 women and 1,538 children or adolescents. RELATED: 15 Migrants Drowned in the […]
December 26, 2024

Libyan Coast Guard Separates Migrant Families Stranded in Mediterranean
‘They experienced the horror of being separated from their wives and children,’ Doctors Without Borders denounced. On Thursday, armed men claiming to be members of the Libyan Coast Guard intercepted a boat carrying over 112 migrants in the central Mediterranean waters. RELATED: Doctor Without Borders Rescues 109 Migrants Drifted in Mediterranean Sea The coast guards […]
November 29, 2024

Doctor Without Borders Rescues 109 Migrants Drifted in Mediterranean Sea
Following the lifting of an administrative blockade by Italy, the Geo Barents ship of Médecins sans Frontières picked up more than a hundred people, mostly women and children, trying to reach Europe.