ROME, May 29, 2025 (BSS/AFP) – Top officials from a group that rescues undocumented migrants from boats in the Mediterranean will go on trial in Italy in October on charges of aiding illegal immigration, the group announced Wednesday. The Mediterranea Saving Humans (MSH) group said in a Facebook post that the case had been sent…
The U.N. refugee agency says fatalities are rising along the Mediterranean Sea crossing to Europe, even as fewer migrants and refugees are making the dangerous journey. Migration reached a peak in 2015, when more than a million refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean to Europe. That number declined to 123,300 in 2021. However, the U.N….
The numbers of migrants who were intercepted by Libya’s coast guard while attempting to cross the Mediterranean almost tripled in 2021 compared to the year before, according to the UN. “As of December 14, 2021, the Libyan coast guard had intercepted 30,990 migrants and refugees and returned them to Libya, almost three times the total…
While the deaths of at least 27 migrants in the English Channel have shocked both Britain and France, shipwrecks of that scale are not uncommon in European waters. UN officials estimate that as many as 1,600 people have died or are missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year alone. In contrast, just 35 migrants have…
At least 41 refugees and migrants have drowned with more than 70 others rescued by a commercial vessel that took them to Sicilian port town Porto Empedocle. Migrants wearing lifejackets on a rubber dinghy are pictured during a rescue operation by the MSF-SOS Mediterranee run Ocean Viking rescue ship, off the coast of Libya in…
The pandemic and its many travel restrictions haven’t stopped thousands of migrants from attempting the dangerous trip across the Mediterranean Sea this year. More than 1,000 have died at sea. AILSA CHANG, HOST: One group of people continues to take on dangerous travel despite all the restrictions of the global pandemic. I’m talking about migrants…