Tag: Libyan SAR ⁄ Open Migration

Migrants in Libya, trapped between war and Covid-19

May 5, 2020 - Nancy Porsia

Since the beginning of April, thousands of men, women and children trapped in Libya have been put at sea heading towards Europe. Estimations say that around 800 migrants left the Libyan shores in the second week of April alone. While the government in Tripoli sent thirty doctors to Italy to contribute to the fight against Covid-19, Italy and Malta declared their ports “unsafe” due to the health emergency, closing their borders to migrants on the Central Mediterranean route. Meanwhile, official detention centres refuse migrants, while dungeons run by militias have their doors wide open. Reporter Nancy Porsia describes what it means to be trapped in a country at war during a pandemic.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 24/2019

June 19, 2019 - Open Migration

Mere hours after the passing of security decree 2, pushed by Italian interior minister Salvini, the new legislation has already been applied to the Sea Watch, which sailed on June 12.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 16/2019

April 24, 2019 - Open Migration

From the chaos of the Libyan conflict to the Trump administration’s new effort to deter migrants. The Venezuelan crisis, migrants rescued in the Channel and the families of the victims from the 2013 shipwreck received by the Pope.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 03/2019

January 22, 2019 - Open Migration

Over 170 migrants lost their lives in two separate shipwrecks last week, while 100 others who were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard are being sent back to the country they were fleeing. Meanwhile, in Europe, crackdowns on refugees and migrants are everywhere.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 29/2018

July 31, 2018 - Open Migration

Over 600 migrants have breached the fence at Ceuta and made it through to Spanish territory. Within the same week, EU institutions were planning new strategies to “prevent deaths at sea” while the Italian Parliament was voting to give new boats to the Libyan Coast Guard. As media coverage on the Mediterranean shrinks, a loud voice rises in Italy to protest anti-migrant policies: the Catholic Church.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 25/2018

July 3, 2018 - Open Migration

More than 160 people have drowned in shipwrecks off the coasts of Libya. This is the first death toll since Libya obtained its own SAR zone. As the NGO ships are denied docking ports, supplies and free circulation, rescue operations at sea are becoming all but impossible.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 18/2018

May 15, 2018 - Open Migration

Supported by Forensic Architecture, some of the survivors from the November 6 2017 shipwreck have filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights against Italy, which had a role in the disaster that caused more than 20 deaths. Niger, one of the key partners to Italy and the EU, has sent 132 Sudanese refugees back to Libya. After a five-day odyssey, the 105 migrants rescued by the Astral have finally disembarked in Catania. DNA from Medhanie Tesfamariam Behre’s son shows that the man tried in Sicily for the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck is not the “real” Mered.