Just over a year ago, in October 2013, two boats carrying refugees and migrants from North Africa to Europe capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, killing over 500 passengers. The tragedy prompted the Italian navy to launch a search and rescue operation called Mare Nostrum (Our Sea), which has helped rescue more than 150,000 migrants attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing in the past year. [1]
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UNHCR hat zusammen mit der International Maritime Organization (IMO) eine Handreichung zu Prinzipien und Praktiken der Seenotrettung von Bootsflüchtlingen herausgegeben.
Varias decenas de almerienses se concentran por los inmigrantes desaparecidos en el mar
En la cuarta protesta por motivos similares en lo que va de año, la asociación Almería Acoge condena las políticas europeas de migración y solicita el cierre de los Centros de Internamiento.
Information and Data Protection Commissioner says release of detailed chronology of events relating to the rescue of over 200 migrants at sea in the tragic Lampedusa shipwreck, could “prejudice the conduct of an investigation of a possible breach of law”
Eine isländische Küstenwache-Fregatte der Trition-Operation und ein spanisches Forschungsschiff haben jeweils 200 syrische Bootsflüchtlinge zwischen Griechenland und Sizilien (150 Seemeilen von Sizilien entfernt) an Bord genommen. Italienische Behörden hatten den Einsatz koordiniert. Über die Hälfte der Flüchtlinge sind Frauen und Kinder. Vor 10 Tagen hatten sie in der Türkei abgelegt. Ihnen war der Treibstoff ausgegangen.
La embarcación rescatada este martes en el Mediterráneo. / CSIC
El buque oceanográfico Sarmiento de Gamboa, perteneciente al Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), ha rescatado esta tarde a unos 200 refugiados sirios que se encontraban a bordo de una barcaza a la deriva en el Mediterráneo en aguas entre Sicilia y Grecia, según ha confirmado el coordinador del CSIC en Roma, Fernando García Sanz.
Der UNHCR bezeichnet die Passage von Libyen nach Süditalien inzwischen als „tödlichste [Flüchtlings-]Route der Welt“.
Questa traversata è la „strada più mortale del mondo“
Almeno 3.419 migranti hanno perso la vita nel Mar Mediterraneo da gennaio. Lo annuncia l’agenzia Onu per i rifugiati UNHCR, sottolineando come questo bilancio record in negativo trasformi questa traversata la „strada più mortale del mondo“. Dall’inizio dell’anno, sono stati oltre 207mila i migranti che hanno tentato di attraversare il Mar Mediterraneo: una cifra quasi tre volte superiore al precedente record del 2011.
Refugees reaching Chad’s desert town Faya-Largeau, crossing the Sahara from Libya, © B Abdoulaye / UNHCR / afrol News
The governments of the poor Sahelian states of Niger and Chad are struggling to accommodate a total of 75,000 refugees crossing the Sahara desert from Libya.
According to the latest statistic update from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) offices in Niamey, Niger, some 54,200 persons have fled Libya into this impoverished Sahelian nation only. Niger authorities even put the number at 57,000.
Most of those fleeing Libya, taking great risks crossing the Sahara desert, are Nigerien nationals – mostly migrant workers in Libya. However, almost 4,000 non-Nigeriens – mostly nationals of other African countries – have also reached Niger.
Those arriving Niger’s northern border, in the middle of the Sahara desert, are mostly deprived of all their values and need assistance to reach their final destinations in Niger or beyond.
Niger authorities and the IOM operate several reception centres in northern Niger. Here, the migrants are registered, given necessary aid and helped reaching their original home.
Dimitris Avramopoulos, the commission’s top man on migration and home affairs, told reporters last week following a two-day marathon meeting of EU justice and home affairs meetings in Brussels that “we are confronted with increasing pressures at our external borders and inside the European Union”.
Discussions included the issues surrounding the threat of foreign fighters returning to Europe after fighting for IS, getting the European parliament to sign off controversial data sharing agreements, border surveillance, and migration.
