A total of 191 Afghan refugees arrived in Rome on June 21 from Pakistan thanks to humanitarian corridors, promoted by Sant'Egidio together with other associations and in agreement with the Italian Ministry of Interior and of Foreign1
On June 19, a luxury cruise ship rescued 68 migrants who were attempting to reach the Spanish Canary Islands in a fishing boat that had drifted in rough seas. Five people were found dead. A week later, the NGO Caminando Fronteras re1
Bocar Diallo, 31, a Senegalese political refugee, died in Bolzano on June 23 following an explosion in the aluminum factory called Aluminium Bozen. The man suffered burns on 57% of his body, and it was impossible to save him.
Greek coast guards rescued 77 individuals in an extensive overnight operation between the Greek islands of Amorgos and Astypalaia. The group has been transported to the touristic island of Naxos in the Cyclades.
A 10-year-old Iraqi girl named Nalina who survived a recent shipwreck in the Ionian Sea has met with both the man who saved her -- a Syrian named Ismail -- and her aunt, who came with her husband to the Calabria region of southern I1