August 30

121 Tunisians

(ANSA/Rep 31.8.)

Lecce (Apulia): 38 unidentified migrants arrested by police upon landing

(ANSA 30.8.)

Maltese companies send two tankers with 350 tons of water and other supplies to Tripoli (ToM 30.8.)

Tunisians rebel at Lampedusa against repatriation; two guards slightly injured (ANSA 29.8., Rep 30.8.)

Catanzaro (Calabria): Arrival of 46 "Asians" departing from Istanbul: Syrian trafficker arrested (CdS 29.8.)

August 25/28

450 Tunisians

(Rep 25./28.8., CdS 27.8.)

IOM, in cooperation with Malta, begins with maritime evacuation of foreigners from Tripoli (ToM/MaS 28.8.)

Attempt of 30 detainees at Bari Refugee Center to escape is prevented by local forces (CdS 28.8.)

August 26: Libyan TNC begins to move from Benghazi to Tripoli; search for Gaddafi continues

Cecilia Malmström in an interview regrets October 2010 visit to Libya and treaty signed employing Gaddafi as an EU border guard (MaS 25.8.)

Maltese evacuation ship returning home as Tripoli unsafe to embark passengers. Ship was fired upon

(ToM 21./24.8.)

Italian officials announce that the first duty of Italy will be to update the Libyan "Friendship Treaty" of 2008 (MaS/ToM 23.8.)

About 100 migrants break out of Pozzallo reception center; half still at large

(Rep 23.8.)

Libyan opposition forces enter Tripoli (21./22.8.)

August 19/21

200 Tunisians

(CdS/Rep/ANSA 19./21.8.,

BoE 20.8.)

Marettimo (Egadi): Arrival of 33 Tunisians

(Rep 21.8.)

Catanzaro (Calabria): Arrival of 66 "Asians" (CdS/ANSA 21.8.)

Marsala (Sicily): Arrival of 35 Tunisians (Rep 19.8.)

Malta, in cooperation with IOM, prepares naval evacuation of Egyptians from Tripoli, now surrounded by rebel forces (ToM 21.8.)

The Italian government announces that about 100 Tunisians intercepted were handed over to a Tunisian patrol boat; nine managed to escape and were taken to Lampedusa

(ANSAmed 22.8.)

Since February more than 16'000 evacuated people from Libya passed through Malta, most of them by sea

(ToM 21.8.)

IOM sees "window of opportunity" to evacuate foreign nationals from Libyan capital (IOM 19.8.)

Last Libya arrivals

till 11 November

Pantelleria: Arrival of 10 Tunisians

(Rep 19.8.)

A Virtu Ferries catamaran from Malta returns 620 Libyans from Sfax (Tunisia) to Misrata and Benghazi (ToM 18.8.)

Tunisians rebel at Pantelleria detention camp (ANSA 18.8.)

August 13/17

2500 sSAfricans

200 Tunisians

(ANSA 13.8., NZZ 14.8.,

Rep 15.8.)

Otranto (Apulia): GdF intercepts 56 Afghans on a sailing boat (ANSA 16.8.)

Taranto (Apulia): Arrival of 300 migrants on an Italian warship (ToM 15.8.)

Mazara del Vallo (Sicily): Arrival of 420 sSAfricans

(ANSA 13./14.8.)

According to Maltese authorities 1’535 migrants arrived this year, 574 of which were granted protection

(ToM 16.8.)

Fortress Europe: 1’674 migrants died in Sicilian Channel this year

(ToM 15.8.)

August 14/15:  An Italian coast guard ship carrying about 300 migrants from Libya rescued off the Tunisian coast is refused entry into Malta. Italian warship takes migrants to Taranto (ToM/MaS 15.8.)

3 missing in Mazara del Vallo landing

(FE/ANSA 14.8.)

Protest at Malta (Safi) detention center quelled with use of tear gas. 22 arraigned next day (ToM 16./17.8.)

Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna): Two West Africans arrested for Lampedusa trafficking

 (ANSA 10.8.)

[8.8. Lampedusa landing: FE reports 10 dead and 30 missing]

August 1/6

        1050 sSAfricans

(ANSA 31.7./1.8./4.8.,

CdS 2./4.8., ToM 4.8.)

August 4: Boat with 330 persons one week at sea; 25 die of dehydration; bodies thrown overboard (CdS/ToM/FE/HCR 4.8., NZZ 5.8.)

August 1: Italian authorities discover 25 bodies in the engine room of a vessel with 271 persons. The victims died from asphyxiation caused by engine fumes. Two dead suffered blows indicating a struggle to escape room. One body cast overboard. Criminal investigation started; six traffickers arrested.

 (ANSA 31.7./1.8., BBC 1.8., Rep 3.8., CdS 1./5.8.)

Italy calls for formal inquest in ‘presumed failure’ of NATO to render assistance to disabled migrant boat carrying 300 persons (MaS/ARD 5.8.); NATO denies it failed to respond (MaS 6.8.)

Violent protests by sSAfricans at detention camps outside Rome, in Calabria (Bari, Crotone) and Sicily; demand for refugee status. 12 Nigerians are arrested on a number of charges

(ANSA 1./2.8., ToM 2.8., CdS 11.8.)