German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will be demanding a more unified response for the EU, as the epicentre of Europe's migration moves north. Following a meeting in Berlin on Monday the two leaders emerged with a pledge to lobby for greater the bloc to...
Around 4,400 people were rescued outside Libyan territorial waters within 24 hours between Saturday and Sunday, in one of the busiest days in the Mediterranean this year. [caption id="attachment_4274" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A rescue operation on Saturday coordinated by the Italian navy. Photo: Italian Navy[/caption] In a statement on Sunday,...
France and the UK have signed a deal for the setting up of a "control and command centre" that deals with the migrant crisis in the French port town of Calais. [caption id="attachment_4246" align="aligncenter" width="786"] French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve and his British counterpart Theresa May.[/caption] The centre will...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is facilitating a forum to improve Libya's response to boats in distress off the country's coast. [caption id="attachment_4188" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Crew from the Zuwara coastguard ferrying migrants in an unprecedented joint rescue operation with the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) on August...
Desperate migrants who tried to escape suffocation in the hold of a 15-metre boat carrying 362 people were kicked in the head and pushed again below deck by people smugglers who are now under arrest in Italy. [caption id="attachment_4205" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Mugshots of seven of the eight...
The Greek government has chartered a cruise ship to help ease the situation on the island of Kos which has been overwhelmed with migrants and asylum seekers this summer. [caption id="attachment_4110" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Migrants boarding the cruise ship Eleftherios Venizelos, which the Greek government has chartered...
The number of migrants and asylum seekers so far in 2015 is now approaching a quarter of a million, according to the latest analysis by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) analysis. [caption id="attachment_4101" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The official count of deaths in the Mediterranean so far this...
A crew from the Libyan coastguard assisted the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) during the rescue of 201 people some 11 nautical miles off the port town of Zuwara this morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woPeUWVH6xY The people rescued from the 10-metre boat included 178 men, 11 women and 12 minors, four...
Some 49 migrants were discovered dead in the hull of a boat from which the Italian Navy rescued around 312 people this morning. [caption id="attachment_4088" align="aligncenter" width="655"] An aerial photo taken by a MOAS drone showing a boat packed on which the Italian navy today found 40...
Some 150 migrants, mostly from East Africa, were found hidden in the hold of a lorry on Wednesday. [caption id="attachment_4037" align="alignleft" width="167"] A woman is pulled out of the cargo hold of a lorry unconscious after she fainted because of poor ventilaiton.[/caption] The vehicle was on its way to the...