Migrants continue to disembark on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where over 730 people have arrived in just over 24 hours. Over 2,000 people are packed into the local hotspot, while transfers continue in Porto Empedocle on Sicily.

The humanitarian ship Humanity 1 arrived in the Italian port of Ancona this week with 106 rescued migrants onboard. The local mayor has lashed out, saying that "the city is full".

Around 90 people have been rescued from a sailboat near the island of Amorgos in the Aegean Sea. The number of migrants reaching the Greek islands from Turkey continues to rise.

Ammar, a young political activist in a remote northern area of crisis-hit Lebanon, has been following the movements of a cousin travelling by sea to Italy. "Up until recently I rejected the idea of leaving the country I love very mu1