mediterranean migration
blue borders

Italy

 

Malta

 

Accidents, Victims, SAR, Debarkation,

Detention, Repatriation

 

 

Diplomacy, Politics, Law

 

Lampedusa

Italy South

 

Arrivals

 

2012 month: 72

2012 cumul.: 72

2011 month:   0

2011 cumul.:  0

 

Arrivals

 

2012 month: 106

2012 cumul.: 106

2011 month:    0

2011 cumul.:    0

 

Arrivals

 

2012 month: 68

2012 cumul.: 68

2011 month:   0

2011 cumul.:  0

 

Victims

 

2012 month: 55

2012 cumul.: 55 

2011 month:   0  

2011 cumul.:   0 

 

Total Arrivals

 

total month:   246

total cumul.:   246

Tunisia:      -  

Libya:       140  

other:       106

 

 

 

Peschici (Apulia): Clandestine landing of 70 'Asians' from Greece on Gargano penninsula; migrant smugglers escape

Rep 31.1.  / CdS 30.1.

 

 

Otranto (Apulia): Clandestine landing of 36 'Asians' on 28 January; migrant smugglers 

escape    Rep 30.1.

 

 

 

Eight migrants from Somalia and Eritrea leave Malta for Norway within the framework of the EU's Relocation Project for Malta (EUREMA)  ToM 31.1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional information about boat with 55 Somalis that sank off Misurata (Libya) mid-January: 40 missing, 15 bodies recovered. Boat was probably one of four that left Libya on 14 January, two arriving in Malta, one at Lampedusa   FE 28.1. / ToM 29.1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mothers of missing "harragas" demonstrate outside Tunisian Foreign Ministry MaS 20.1.

 

 

 

Libyan Interior Minister Fawzi Abdelali asks for EU assistance to rebuild 19 detention centers as part of a national system of border surveillance (ToM 29.1.) MaS 30.1.

 

 

 

 

Tunisia and Switzerland discuss agreement on "consulted migration" and development    TAP 28.1. 

 

At Copenhagen EU Interior Ministers fail to agree on terms for common asylum policy    BoE 26.1.



 

Italian PM Mario Monti and Libyan PM A. el-Keeb sign "Tripoli Declaration". 2008 Friendship Treaty put on "back-burner"

TP 22.1.

 

 Libya appeals for EU help to stem renew-ed flow of illegal migrants into country

 LH 20.1.

 

"Refugees: How Europe failed": Article published in The Times of Malta by EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström

ToM 19.1.

 

FRONTEX signs Working Agreement with Nigeria regulating, among other things, 'joint return operations', i.e. Schengen area repatriation flights  FRONTEX 19.1.

 

FRONTEX publishes 2011 Third Quarter Report Q3     FRONTEX 18.1.

 

  

 

 

 Arrival of 72 Somalis from Libya on a rubber dinghy; transfer to Porto Empedocle 

Rep 13.1., UNHCR 31.1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lampedusa still

an 'unsafe port'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After intensive search rescue of 68 Somalis from Libya; travelling in two rubber dinghies; 25 picked up by AFM; baby born on patrol boat; 43 rescued by Italian cargo ship    ToM 15.1.

UNHCR 31.1.

 

 

 

 Libyan Coast Guard discovers rubber dinghy near Khums; one dead, 54 missing (for more see above)

 FE 17.1.

 

 

 

 

 

Near Monastir the Tunisian Coast Guard stops 43 migrants from sailing to Italy on a fishing boat. The Coast Guard claims that last year they thwarted 14 illegal emigration attempts and stopping 647 persons    TAP 12.1.

ANSAmed 15.1.

    

The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) calls upon the government to reopen the files of missing "harragas"   Magh 6.1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi in Tunis to discuss economic relations and cooperation on migration flows

ANSAmed 6.1.