one week lull (ANSA 2.3.)

February 18/23

700* Tunisians

(CdS 17./21./22.2.,

ANSA 17.-23.2.,

ToM 21.2.)

AFM provides experts and helicopter for "Hermes 2011"  (ToM 23.2.)

Tension at Lampedusa camp (CdS 21.2.)

"Hermes 2011" starts

(FRONTEX 22.2., ToM 19.2.)

"Quarta notte senza sbarchi"

(ANSA/NZZ 17.2.)

Pozzallo (Sicily): Arrival of 16 Tunisians (ANSA 14.2.)

Pantelleria: Arrival of 22 Tunisians (ANSA 14.2.)

1800 at Lampedusa camp made for 800 (NZZ 17.2.)

February 17: Libyan rebellion starts at Benghazi

FRONTEX declares readiness (AJ 15.2.)

Frattini (and Ashton) in Tunis discuss technical assistance, anticipating April Accord (ANSA/NZZ 14.2.)

February 8/13

5000* Tunisians

(ANSA 9.-13.2., NZZ 11./14.2.,

ToM 12.2., CdS 10.2.)

* approximate figure

Linosa: Arrival of 13 North Africans (ANSA 9.2.)

February 11: A boat with 120 Tunisians "stopped" (or "rammed"?) by TCG off Kerkennah Island

(ANSA 12.2., NZZ/AJ 14.2., PdT 18.2.)

5 dead, 30 missing, 85 saved

(FE 11.2., ANSA/NZZ 14.2., PdT 18.2.)

Tunisian army takes control of Zarzis harbor, point of departure for many migrants (ANSA 13.2.)

Italy declares Lampedusa emergency  (CdS 12.2.)

February 12: Mubarak resigns (CdS 12.2.)

Lampedusa arrivals placed in hotels

(NZZ 11.2.)

2009/10 joint Libyan-Italian patrols end