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Boat carrying 200 migrants sinks off Lebanon’s coast

A boat carrying 200 would-be migrants sank off Lebanon's coast on Saturday, according to the military, Anadolu reports. The army said naval forces headed to the site of the sinking, off the coast of Selaata, north of Beirut, and proceeded to rescue the migrants. It, however, did not provide details about their nationalities. The statement said the boat was carrying people trying to illegally cross the Lebanese territorial waters. In September, […]

1 January 2023

International

15 migrants killed by smugglers in western Libya

Fifteen irregular migrants were shot dead by traffickers in Sabratha city in western Libya, according to a local NGO on Saturday, Anadolu reports. Ahmed Hamza, head of the Libyan National Commission for Human Rights, said the migrants were killed in a dispute between traffickers before their boat were set ablaze. He said the slain migrants were from different nationalities. There was no comment yet from Libyan authorities. Libya is considered one of […]

9 October 2022

International

Greece denied entry to more than 150,000 migrants this year

Greece prevented 150,000 migrants from entering the country since the beginning of the year, the minister of migration announced yesterday. Notis Mitarachi told Eleftheros Typos newspaper that Greek forced "prevented 154,102 irregular immigrants entering since the beginning of the year. While 50,000 immigrants have tried to enter Greece in the month of August only." Border control is considered one of the main priorities of the conservative Greek government, which assumed power in 2019 and seeks to be re-elected […]

5 September 2022

International

Morocco navy rescues 359 irregular migrants

The Moroccan navy has rescued 359 irregular migrants in the three days from Saturday to Monday, the official news agency MAP reported Tuesday. MAP quoted an unnamed military source as saying that the Coast Guard units intercepted and rescued 359 irregular migrants, including ten women and four children, who were on dinghies and that most of them are from sub-Saharan Africa. The Moroccan official explained that the rescued immigrants received the necessary first aid. […]

27 July 2022

International News

Italy clears rescue ship to bring 180 migrants to Sicily

A humanitarian rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean for days has "finally" received instructions to sail to an Italian port, so the 180 migrants on board can be disembarked. In a social media post on Sunday, SOS Mediterranee also described "relief on the #Ocean Viking" when the ship's crew and passengers learned that the rescued migrants are to be disembarked on Monday at Porto Empedocle in Sicily. Earlier, the group […]

6 July 2020

International News

Erdogan vows to keep border open for refugees until EU meets all demands

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he would keep Turkey's border open for refugees until the EU had met all Ankara's demands while comparing Greece's response to the crisis to the Nazis. "Until all Turkey's expectations, including free movement, updating of the customs union and financial assistance, are tangibly met, we will continue the practice on our borders," he said in a televised speech. Turkey's decision at the […]

12 March 2020

International News

Libyan coastguard picks up almost 1,000 migrants in one day

Libyan coastguards picked up 948 African migrants on inflatable boats in several operations and also recovered 10 bodies on Sunday, officials and a witness at a naval base said. The operations brings the number, since last week, of mainly African migrants trying to head to Italy but brought back to Libya to almost 2,000. The western coast of Libya is the main departure point for thousands of migrants fleeing wars […]

25 June 2018

International News

Hungary criminalises aiding migrants with ‘Stop Soros’ bill

The Hungarian parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would allow for the imprisonment of anybody aiding undocumented migrants, ignoring pleas from the European Union, the Union Nations and numerous international organisations not to do so. The package of legislation called the 'Stop Soros' bill, which targets rights groups and NGOs, criminalises the act of assisting migrants, allowing for the incarceration of individuals, or the banning of organisations. In […]

21 June 2018

International News

Libyan coastguards recover bodies of 11 migrants: spokesman

Libyan coastguards recovered the bodies of 11 migrants who died off Libya’s western shore during an attempted crossing to Italy on Sunday, a spokesman said. More than 80 migrants survived the incident off the city of Sabratha, about 70 km (44 miles) west of Tripoli, and coastguards brought them back to the nearby city of Zawiya, said naval coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem. The migrants were from various sub-Saharan African countries, […]

23 April 2018

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