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As Europe outsources its border policing to Libya, rescue operations by NGOs are hampered by criminal inquiries in Italy, says Guardian correspondent Lorenzo Tondo
Another 43 refugees drowned off the coast of Tunisia as a result of the EU’s fortress Europe policy According to the Tunisian Red Crescent, 43 refugees drowned off the Tunisian coast near the town of Zarzis on 2 July, when their completely overcrowded boat capsized. Of the 127 on board, only 84 could be rescued. The refugees, who came from Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Chad, and Bangladesh, set out last week, near the Libyan town of Zuwarah. The cemetery for migrants who have died trying to reach Europe, in the village of Zarzis, Tunisia, Saturday June 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Mehdi El Arem) Four other...
Top 10 News / July 6, 2021 July 6, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading Prosecutors in Sicily have launched an investigation against the Libyan coastguard after footage emerged appearing to show officials firing on a boat of migrant families in the Mediterranean Sea. On 30 June, rescue workers from the German organisation Sea-Watch recorded the Libyan coastguard patrol vessel coming dangerously close to the small wooden boat and apparently firing shots in an attempt to force the 64 people onboard back to Libya. It is the first time a European country has launched an investigation against the Libyan c...
Southeast Tunisia – In Ben Guerdane, a town in Tunisia’s far southeast straddling marshes, the sea, and the Libyan border, rows of stalls selling smuggled fuel sit shuttered. Only one stall is open. Out front, Tarek sits in a burnous, a woollen hooded Tunisian cloak. Behind him, plastic jerrycans full of diesel are stocked in the shade of his stall. “We gather the fuel that traders bring across from Libya, store it, and sell it here,” Tarek said. “But for the eight months that the borders were closed [due to coronavirus measures], we didn’t work a day. We sat at home.”