Two small boats carrying a total of 82 migrants were rescued in the night between February 19 and 20 off Lampedusa. On February 19, 848 people reached the tiny island on 17 boats while 958 arrived on February 18 in 20 separate landi1
More than 400 migrants were intercepted by the Tunisian coast guard over the weekend. Other boats leaving Tunisia did arrive on the Italian coast in the last few days however, including one containing a top-flight Tunisian footballe1
Bulgarian prosecutors have charged five people with human trafficking after 18 Afghans were found dead inside a truck on a dirt road in Bulgaria last Friday. Separately, 43 migrants were discovered in a van on Monday in western Bulg1
Between Friday and Sunday, 288 migrants disembarked three NGO ships in Italy. More than 1,000 migrants were also rescued by the Italian authorities or arrived by sea on Italy's southern coasts.
The UN human rights chief has expressed serious concern about a proposed Italian law on NGO migrant rescue vessels that was passed by the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian parliament last week. He has called for the law to be withd1