Prosecutors in Sicily this week asked a court to dismiss a case against crew members of the Iuventa migrant rescue ship, on the grounds that no crime was committed. The volunteers had been accused of aiding and abetting illegal immi1
A body has been found and a search is continuing for two people missing in the English Channel, French maritime authorities say.
The bodies of 24 people have been recovered after a shipwreck off the northern Senegalese coast. Witnesses said the wrecked boat had been carrying hundreds of people.
The UN migration agency IOM and 27 partners are appealing for US$112 million to provide urgent humanitarian and development assistance to over 1.4 million migrants and host communities in the Horn of Africa, Yemen, and southern Afri1
The European ombudsperson says rules making the the EU's border and coastguard agency dependent on national authorities must change to avoid a repeat of last June's migrant shipwreck off Greece.