Twenty one dead, 23 missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti coast, UN agency official says
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Twenty-one migrants died and another 23 are missing after a boat carrying 77 people capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the second such incident in two weeks, the United Nations migration agency said on Tuesday. The boat’s occupants included children, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a post on social […]
Snapshot: Volleyball, Carthage, Tunisia
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Migrant boat sinks off Turkey, children among 22 dead
Istanbul, Turkey Reuters At least 22 people drowned, including seven children, when a rubber boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s north-west province of Canakkale, the local governor’s office said on Friday, adding that search and rescue efforts continued. In a statement, the Canakkale governor’s office said that two people had been rescued by the coast […]
Italy’s Lampedusa pleads for help after thousands of migrant arrivals
Lampedusa, Italy Reuters The small Italian island of Lampedusa is being overwhelmed by the number of migrants arriving on its shores, its mayor said on Thursday, after thousands of people landed from North Africa on flimsy boats over the past two days. Lampedusa sits in the Mediterranean between Tunisia, Malta and the larger Italian island […]
Sudanese woman tells of “horrible” desert journey after expulsion from Tunisia
Alasaa, Libya Reuters Exhausted, pregnant and weeping, Sudanese nurse Tafaul Omar sat under the scorching desert sun along with 14 other migrants who said they had been arrested by Tunisian authorities and dumped in the border area with Libya – a practice Tunisia denies. The group of men and women from Sudan, Senegal, Ghana and […]
Postcards: Changing climate pushes migrating birds from parched Tunisian wetlands
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Forty-one feared dead in migrant shipwreck in central Mediterranean
Rome, ItalyReuters Forty-one migrants are thought to have died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, Italian authorities and United Nations agencies said on Wednesday, citing survivors who have been taken to the Italian island of Lampedusa. Local public prosecutor Salvatore Vella and three UN agencies confirmed media reports that four people who […]
Migrants dead, missing after shipwrecks off Italy, Tunisia
Rome, ItalyReuters Two people died and around 30 more are missing at sea after two migrant shipwrecks off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the coastguard said on Sunday, adding that 57 people had been rescued. In a separate operation, 34 migrants were airlifted by helicopter from a cliff in Lampedusa on which they had […]
Tunisia recovers 901 bodies of drowned migrants off its coast this year
Tunis, TunisiaReuters The Tunisian coast guard recovered 901 bodies of drowned migrants off its coast from 1st January to 20th July this year, the country’s interior minister, Kamel Feki, said on Wednesday, marking an unprecedented number of victims off the country’s coasts. A view shows boats that were used by migrants and seized by Tunisian […]
At least 15 migrants drown off coast of Senegal capital Dakar
Dakar, SenegalReuters At least 15 people drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Senegal’s capital Dakar on Monday, Senegal’s President Macky Sall said on Monday. The incident occurred offshore from one of the country’s popular beaches in the Ouakam area in the early hours of Monday. Locals remove fuel containers from […]