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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The federal government of Nigeria has questioned Italy over the burial of the 26 migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean sea. Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs, said the Italian embassy told the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) that […]
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Tunisia’s navy rescued almost 100 migrants from a sinking boat off its Southeast Coast on Tuesday, authorities said, hours after eight people being smuggled to Europe drowned in the same stretch of water. The incidents coincided with the launch of joint patrols by the Tunisian and Italian navies to stem migrant flows and carry out […]
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More than 100 migrants are missing after a shipwreck off the coast of western Libya, the Libyan navy said on Thursday. Rescuers found at least seven survivors on Wednesday after they had remained for three days at sea, navy spokesman Ayub Kassem said, without providing further details. The shipwreck occurred off the town of Sabratha, […]
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AT least one person has been found dead as about 1,500 migrants desperate to reach England made a renewed attempts to enter the Eurotunnel terminal overnight in the French port town of Calais, a police source has told the AFP news agency. “Our team found a corpse this morning and the firefighters have confirmed the […]
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