Border Forensics News Today

Nearly three years ago, on July 30, 2021, a Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat intercepted a small vessel carrying around 20 people. The interception by Libyan officials happened despite the vessel being within Malta’s search-and-rescue area. Our investigations suggest the European Union border agency Frontex played a role in enabling the interception, but the agency has refused to share any information about it. Today, the that Frontex can continue to shield itself from scrutiny for the way it

While the judges in Luxembourg dismissed the case, they also faulted Frontex for failing to disclose the existence of relevant photographs.

Today, the General Court of the EU ruled that Frontex can continue to shield itself from scrutiny for the way it conducts aerial surveillance in the Mediterranean Sea and enables such Libyan interceptions.

A report on the latest IOM report on migrant deaths and the under-reported deaths of migrants crossing the Sahara.

Sabah, Libya, is an oasis town at the northern edge of the Sahara Desert. To stand at the edge of the town and look southward into the desert toward Niger is

More and more migrants have sought the Niger-Libya route after the fall of the Libyan state in 2011 and the crackdown on the Moroccan-Spanish border at Melilla and Ceuta.

HRW Submission to The EU Ombudsman’s Inquiry Into Frontex’s Role in the Search and Rescue Operations

A drive to stop people fleeing northwards has forced migrants to even riskier routes. No one knows the death toll, but one survivor tells how five people died of thirst next to him

Migrant centre on the Italy-French border struggles to cope with the influx of people fleeing racist violence in Tunisia

Delays in rescuing people at sea aren’t a European policy failure. They are a deliberate, cruel strategy.