Italian ship accused of returning migrants to Libya

Italy is being accused of violating international law after an Italian towboat is said to have rescued 108 migrants and returned...
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Italy gets tough on migrant sea rescue missions

Italy is seeking commitments from European Union countries that they will take in migrants rescued in the Mediterranean....
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Tunisia allows rescued migrants to dock after a two week wait

Reports on 28 July confirmed that Tunisia would take in 40 migrants who had been stranded at sea for two weeks after being...
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Italy renews friendship pact with Libya to block migrants

Italy and Libya agreed on 7 July to reactivate a 2008 friendship treaty, which allowed migrants to be returned to Libyan...
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Italy’s new far-right government blocks rescue ship from docking

Italy’s far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini has blocked a ship carrying rescued migrants from docking in Italian ports and ...
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Italy’s Salvini visits Libya to talk about blocking migrants

Matteo Salvini, the Italian interior minister, has called for migrant reception centres to be set up on the southern borders of...
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Fifteen hundred Nigerians in Italian prisons

The Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, Stefano Pontesilli, revealed that approximately 1,500 Nigerians who “have not behaved well” are...
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No money to repatriate body of Gambian migrant who died of heart attack

The family of Salifu Camara has said that they do not have the substantial amount of money that would be required to send his...
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Gambian migrants and asylum seekers fear backlash in Italy

The arrest of Gambian asylum seeker Alagie Touray by Italian authorities, on suspicions of planning a terrorist attack on behalf...
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