More than 200 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean from January to June, bringing the overall death toll so far this year to more than 1,000, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said. IOM said the tragic weekend began on Friday with two shipwrecks adding to the alarming increase in migrant deaths off Libya […]
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More than 3,000 migrants and refugees have died crossing the Mediterranean in a desperate bid to reach Europe’s shores since the start of the year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday. The figure so far represents a 40 percent drop compared to last year’s record of 5,000 known or suspected drownings. “That mark […]
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More than 160,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Europe in 2017 having crossed the Mediterranean Sea, while about 3,000 people died trying to reach the EU, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said. IOM said this in a press statement released on Tuesday in Moscow. “IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 160,067 migrants and […]
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Italian authorities have began post-mortem examinations into the cause of death of 26 teenage girls whose bodies were recovered in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday. This is as the federal government called for an international inquiry into their death, which it described as “a monumental loss and a sad moment for our country”. The girls, […]
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Almost 200 people are feared to have died in two Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwrecks during the weekend, according to reports on Monday. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Libya said that seven people were rescued off the north-western city of Zawiya, and one of them said 113 others were missing. The information was posted […]
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A four day-old baby belonging to Mariam Ohene, a Nigerian, was among over 480 migrants rescued by humanitarian ships on Saturday in the central Mediterranean Sea. Also rescued with Ohene were her two year-old son named Benjamin and her Ghanaian husband Richard. They were all travelling on one of two rubber boats carrying over 200 […]
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Five migrants were found dead in the sea off Libya on Thursday after the boats they were travelling in sank, likely carrying hundreds more to their deaths, an aid organisation said. Proactiva Open Arms, one of several groups operating in the area, said it was notified that an inflatable boat was sinking and found another […]
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A total of 255 migrants drowned while crossing the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of 2017, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), has disclosed. The organization said on Tuesday in Geneva that arrival of migrants in Europe in the first 36 days of 2017 was much lower than that of last year. According to IOM, […]
Continue ReadingNot less than 239 migrants have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, a spokesman for the United Nations migration agency, said on Thursday. One group of migrants, including about 20 women and six children, set off in a rubber dinghy from Libya around 3 am on Wednesday, but their boat collapsed after a few hours, […]
Continue ReadingAn estimated 3,100 people have perished in the Mediterranean Sea this year alone. In the latest migrant surge, about 4,655 migrants were saved on Tuesday and 28 bodies recovered in more than 30 rescue missions off the Libyan coast, Italy’s coast guard said on Wednesday. Italy’s The Local newspaper gave a death toll of 22 migrants, […]
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