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Source: Italian prosecutors widen probe to include MSF over migrant rescues
Italy is under pressure to manage new arrivals because some 600,000 migrants have reached it by sea from North Africa since 2014.
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UK must agree implementation period for EU migration curbs – lawmakers
The committee also criticised existing migration data, which has a large margin of error, as “wholly inadequate”.
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Italy gets Brussels backing for EU peers to accept migrants off boats
Spain’s EU mission said it would only unveil their position on the matter at the ministers’ meeting in the Estonian capital.
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EU effort to halt migrants founders in Libya's chaos
Half a million people have crossed the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy over the past four years, mainly sub-Saharan Africans who pay smugglers to shepherd them across the desert to Libya.
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More than 120 migrants feared dead at sea after boat’s motor stolen - IOM
Most of the people attempting the journey originally come Nigeria, followed by Bangladesh and other sub-Saharan countries.
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Libya smugglers broadcast abuse of African migrants on social media
The migrants and refugees being filmed say they have been beaten, tortured and held in cells without food
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Bodies of seven African migrants recovered from truck in Libya
Twenty-eight others, including five women, were rescued on Sunday when the truck was discovered at Garabulli, a town some 50 km east of Tripoli.
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ICC prosecutor mulls inquiry on crimes against migrants in Libya
The United Nations migration agency said more than 1,000 migrants have been reported dead or missing in the Mediterranean this year.
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IOM: Nearly 9,000 migrants rescued in Mediterranean over Easter weekend
IOM reported earlier in April that growing numbers of African migrants are traded in ‘slave markets’ before being held for ransom, forced labour or sexual exploitation.
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[FACT CHECK] Claim that 13 mln migrants live in SA wildly incorrect
A political party leader’s incorrect claim that 13 million foreign-born migrants live in the country is in part based on a debunked claim.
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More than 1,300 migrants rescued at sea in one day - Italy coast guard
The voyage from Libya across the Mediterranean to Italy is currently the main route to Europe for migrants.
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EU offers more funds to Africa curb migration
Some 1.4 million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe this year and last, and the EU wants to cut back the influx.
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EU proposes new asylum rules to stop migrants crossing Europe
In an unprecedented wave of migration last year, 1.3 million people reached the EU.
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Suspected human trafficking kingpin extradited from Sudan to Italy
The 35-year-old was arrested in Sudan on 24 May, on charges of human trafficking & on illegal immigration.
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Between 700-900 migrants may have died at sea this week
About 14,000 have been rescued & there’ve been at least 3 confirmed instances of boats sinking.
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Smugglers made $5-6bn off migrants to Europe in 2015
Nine out of 10 migrants & refugees entering the European Union in 2015 relied on facilitation services.
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Italy rescues 910 boat migrants, nearly 600 saved off Libya
A spokesman for Libyan naval forces said the bodies of four dead women had been recovered.
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African & Europe to discuss controlling flow of migrants
Europe will offer a R100 billion incentive to African leaders to stop the flow of migrants.
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Facebook mistook Libyan shipwreck photos for spam
Facebook has apologised after they temporarily took down photos of a shipwreck off the coast of Libya.
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Nearly 2,700 migrants rescued at sea near Libya
German navy, Italian Navy, coastguard & an MSF search & rescue ship participated in the rescue.
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OPINION: Why those crossing the Mediterranean aren't 'migrants'
Lauren Wolfe asks why we refer to the refugee emergency as the ‘Mediterranean migrant crisis’.
