The number of migrants who were intercepted at sea and brought back to Libya by Libyan authorities last year is equal to 24,684 persons, a 24% decrease compared to 2021 when they were 32,425.
The number of migrants arriving in Spain irregularly decreased in 2022, Spanish government figures show. While sea arrivals dropped overall and in particular on the Atlantic route to the Canaries, the Melilla and Ceuta enclaves saw1
German federal police have uncovered the smuggling of ten Syrians in the eastern state of Saxony near the Polish border. In a similar case on December 26, federal police in the southern state of Bavaria thwarted a smuggling attempt1
The MSF rescue ship in the Mediterranean was racing to help a migrant boat in distress on Monday, but feared doing so might break the far-right Italian government's new law on life-saving missions.
The Ocean Viking will have on board an exhibition of works by Italian cartoonist and activist Gianluca Costantini, who came up with this idea when the rescue ship of the NGO SOS Mediterranée docked in his city, Ravenna, in Bolognia.