The Sfax Maritime Guard in Tunisia has thwarted 6 attempts at illegal migration, reports the Tunisie Numérique website on October 10. According to the same source, interventions by the National Maritime Guard in the governorate of Sfax resulted in the rescue of 135 would-be migrants. Tunisie Numérique notes that these migrants include 32 Asians, 99 […]
The Pas-de-Calais prefecture in France announced on Sunday October 8 that “a man was found lifeless on the beach at Merlimont“. Confirming the death, the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor’s office said that “the preferred hypothesis is that of a migrant”. This death comes a few days after that of a migrant woman of Eritrean origin found […]
Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed has described as “derisory” the amount allocated by the European Union as part of an agreement to reduce migrant arrivals. It’s akin to charity,” he said. In fact, Brussels only intends to release 42 million euros out of the 105 million planned. “Tunisia does not accept anything that resembles charity or […]
The NGO SOS Méditerranée announced in a press release that 68 migrants in distress had been rescued by its ambulance vessel L’Océan Viking in international waters off Libya on Sunday morning. The shipwrecked migrants, seen in images posted on the NGO’s X (ex-Twitter) account, were “in a double-decker wooden boat that had left Zouara in […]
According to Seneweb, which cites “a reliable source”, 417 migrants have disembarked in Gran Canaria and El Hierro, Spain, from Senegal. According to Dakar Actu, which gives the details, two convoys with two pirogues each were involved: the first two boats were carrying 113 and 109 migrants, including 4 women, while the last two had […]
At the end of September 2023, “more than 2500 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean”, said Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on 28 September. This figure represents an increase of almost 50% compared to the same period in 2022, says PressAfrik media. Ms Menikdiwela recalled […]
