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Shipwreck off Tunisia leaves 17 people dead in attempt to reach Europe The sinking of a boat from Libya comes amid a steep rise in the number of perilous sea crossings from Africa A refugee from Ivory Coast who survived a shipwreck in March en route to Europe, in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax, 22 April 2021 (Fethi Belaid/AFP) By Published date: 14 May 2021 13:26 UTC | Last update: 1 min 33 sec ago At least 17 people have drowned off the coast of Tunisia while attempting to reach Italy by sea from Libya, the International Organiza...

InfoMigrants By Emma Wallis Published on : 2021/05/14 The IOM has confirmed that at least 17 migrants are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean on Wednesday evening. Their ship, which is thought to have departed from Libya, got into difficulty off the Tunisian coast. Two women were rescued. The latest tragedy to occur in the Mediterranean was confirmed on Thursday (May 13) by a spokesperson for the UN Migration Agency IOM, Safa Mseheli. She said on Twitter that the boat had reportedly left Zwara, in eastern Libya, two days ea...

May 4, 2021 Share As the waves pounded the gray rubber boat carrying more than 100 Africans hoping to reach Europe from Libya, those aboard dialed the number for migrants in distress frantically. In the series of calls to the Alarm Phone hotline, passengers explained that the dinghy had run out of fuel while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea and was quickly filling up with water and panic. On the other end of the line, activists tried to keep the migrants calm as they relayed the boat’s GPS coordinates repeatedly to Italian, Maltese and Libyan authorities and later to Frontex, t...

IOM When a person goes missing, the existing laws, procedures and inter-state cooperation enable families to make the necessary arrangements and reach closure about the loss of their loved ones. A new report from the International Organization of Migration (IOM)’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre and Missing Migrants Project shows this is not the case for people across the United Kingdom who have missing migrant relatives. “The families who participated in the research in the UK are some of the tens of thousands of people living worldwide with the pain of not knowing the fate of thei...

Missing Migrants Berlin – When a person goes missing, the existing laws, procedures and inter-state cooperation enable families to make the necessary arrangements and reach closure about the loss of their loved ones. A new report from the International Organization of Migration (IOM)’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre and Missing Migrants Project shows this is not the case for people across the United Kingdom who have missing migrant relatives. “The families who participated in the research in the UK are some of the tens of thousands of people living worldwide with the pain of not ...