Arrivals

2013   month:  2'218

2013   cumul.:  5'185

2012   month:       358

2012   cumul.:    1'207  

Arrivals

2013   month:  1'805

2013   cumul.:  5'293

2012   month:       844

2012   cumul.:    3'136 

Arrivals

2013   month:     977

2013   cumul.:  1'287

2012   month:         94

2012   cumul.:    1'066

Victims

2013   month:      34

2013   cumul.:    112

2012   month:        58

2012   cumul.:      166

Total Arrivals

month:      5'000

cumul.:    11'765

Tunisia:           78

Libya:          8'031

other:          3'656

400 air and sea transfers  AF 29.7. 

 1'100 at reception center, situation critical

 CdM 27.7.

 ANSA 28.7. / BE 28.7.

GC rescues two more boats carrying 110

migrants    Rep 27.7.

Night rescue by merchant ship and Italian Navy

of 50 West Africans

travelling on a small

rubber dinghy

  ANSA 27.7. / video Rep 

Rescue of three boats with a total of 278 sSAfricans

ANSA 25.7. 

Catania (Sicily): GC assists 25 'Asians' stuck on sandbank near Marzamemi   ANSA 31.7.

Bianco (Calabria): 36 migrants detected on highway after arrival  ANSA 30.7.

Siracusa (Sicily): GC assists 116 'Asians' after hitting sandbank near Porto Palo  ANSA 30.7.

Crotone (Calabria): GdF inter-cepts 102 Syrians travelling on a small fishing vessel; 

FRONTEX air reconaissance involved; two arrested for trafficking    Rep 29.7. 

Siracusa (Sicily): Night arrival of 94 Syrians  ANSA 26.7.

Roccella Ionica (Calabria): GdF and GC rescue 85 Egyptians and Syrians; traffickers escape

ANSA 25.7.  / Rep video

Siracusa (Sicily): GdF intercepts 199 Egyptians and Syrians travelling on a fragile wooden vessel; traffickers arrested

 ANSA 23.7.

  AFM rescue 112 migrants in distress at sea; 8 get urgent medical treatment

MT 28.7.

106 sSAfricans rescued by AFM; two highly pregnant women flown to hospital

ToM 25.7. / MT 25.7.

AFM 26.7.

UNHCR Libya reports 3317 irregular departures toward Italy and Malta during month of July

HCR External update

La Repubblica publishes list of 26 accidents (with over 6'000 victims)

ranging from 1996 to present

  Rep 29.7.

31 Nigerians drowned off Libya

according to 22 Lampedusa survivors 

Rep 28.7. / SM 28.7. / TP 27.7.

AFM get new EU-funded SAR equipment  ToM 25.7. / AFM 26.7.

Ex-mayor of Lampedusa, Bernardino de Rubeis, gets 5-year prison sen-tence for corruption  ANSA 24.7. 

Malta tells ECtHR that sending migrants back to Libya is ‘just one of the possibilities considered’ MT 31.7. 

Malta government triggers EU 

migration emergency mechanism

ToM 27.7. 

 EU Commission publishes 2012

Annual Report on the Instrument for Stability  EUCOM 26.7.

ECtHR rules that Malta breached the human rights of a Somali migrant who suffered degrading detention

conditions   ToM 23.7.

GC intercepts boat with 204 migrants  ANSA 21.7.

AF 21.7.

 900 migrants at reception center; air and sea trans-fers continue AF 20.7.

700 migrants rescued during last 24 hours, many along Libyan coast

AF 19.7. / CdM 18.7.

76 migrants rescued by Navy and GC after tele-phonic alert  ANSA 19.7.

GC, GdF and Navy rescue a total of 121 migrants

 AF 18.7.

Reacting to an emergency call 86 migrants rescued by oil tanker and GC

  GS 17.7. / AF 17.7.

Seven migrants rescued by oil tanker   AF 17.7. 

95 migrants rescued by tug boat 100 NM off the island  ANSA 16.7. 

Siracusa (Sicily): Local police rescue 90 migrants from a sinking vessel 50 m off the coast near Marchesa   ANSA 20.7. 

Crotone (Calabria): 53 migrants rescued by GdF  ANSA 20.7.

Siracusa (Sicily): GC escorts two boats to Portopalo, one with 65 Egyptians, another with 217 Somalis and Eritreans

 ANSA 16.7. / CdM 16.7.

10 Somalis (three families)

relocated to Ireland

  ToM 16.7.

 Giusi Nicolini, mayor of Lampedusa, responds to mothers of missing 'harragas' endorsing request for EU investigation  FFM 21.7.

 Lampedusa migrants refuse to be fingerprinted  ANSA 20.7. 

 FFM 21.7. /  video

Italian NGO 'Storie migranti' publishes detailed report about eight cases of missing 'harragas'  

  StM 20.7.  

US delivers 200 Humvees to Libya suitable for monitoring its 4,348 km of land borders   LH 18.7. 

Tunisian Coast Guard rescues 83 sSAfricans 52 NM north of Zarzis

BNT 16.7. / TAP 17.7. 

 PM Ali Zeidan defends decision to train Libyan troops abroad  LH 16.7.

 Maltese Home Affairs Minister Mallia meets Cecilia Malmström to discuss migration problems including relocation and repatriation  MT 18.7.

Publication of FRAN Q1 2013 Report   FRONTEX 16.7. 

Italian naval unit rescues 90 sSAfricans in Libyan waters   SM 15.7. 

 140 migrants transferred by air to mainland; 613 left  ANSA 11.7.

GC rescues 52 sSAfricans off Libya after satellite phone call

 HE 11.7.

Within 24 hours after

papal visit a total of 559 sSAfricans rescued in various operations by GC,  Navy and five merchant ships  CdM 9.7.

 In a night operation GC rescues 303 sSAfricans travelling on three boats; another 133 stopped after arrival  ANSA 9.7. 

video Rep 

Siracusa (Sicily): Midnight arrival of 63 Syrians; two traffickers escape  CdM 15.7.  GS 15.7.

Portopalo (Sicily): Military ship rescues 29 sSAfricans  HE 11.7.

Portopalo (Sicily): 146 sSAfricans rescued jointly by GC and AFM  HE 11.7.

Marsala (Sicily): Rescue of 5 Tunisians after emergency call

 SM 11.7. / HE 11.7. 

 Pozzallo (Sicily): 85 Somalis travelling on a rubber dinghy rescued by commercial vessel and port authority 

 SM 11.7. / HE 11.7.

 AFM rescue 97 sSAfricans from sinking boat in night operation

 MT 15.7. / AFM 15.7.

Another 202 sSAfricans travelling on 3 boats brought ashore; 5 medical evacua-tions by air 

 ToM 10.7. / MT 10.7.

 AFM 9.7. / video

Night rescue of 68 sSAfricans

by AFM; baby born in transfer!  video ToM 10.7. 

AFM 10.7.

102 sSAfricans brought ashore by AFM  ToM 9.7.  AFM 9.7.

GC rescues a mixed group of 16 migrants off Teulada, Sardinia

US 10.7.

2'000 Libyan soldiers to be trained in UK following G8 agreement

LH 10.7. 

 Libyan Coast Guard rescues 103 Somalis after engine failure; three reported dead  LH 9.7.

Maltese PM Muscat meets PM Letta in Rome to discuss Libya and migration   MT 15.7.

An anti-immigration protest to be held in Valletta (Malta) doesn't take place

ToM 14.7.

25 Maltese authors and 68 lawyers dencounce governmental 'push-back' plan; more NGO reactions

ToM 12.7. / ToM 12.7.

EUCL President van Rompuy in Malta; meets PM Muscat and Libyan Deputy PM to discuss migration; PM Muscat backtracks   MT 11.7. 

The European Court of Human Rights

blocks Malta push-back following an urgent request for an interim measure by NGOs    ToM 9.7. / MT 9.7.

EU Commissioner Malmstrom is 'extremely surprised' by PM Muscat's comments and warns that push-backs are illegal  ToM 9.7. 

  Pope Francis visits island; arrival of 166 sSAfricans in the morning  CdM 8.7.

Rep 8.7. / video Rep 

 242 migrants left at re-ception center; 61 'North-Africans' transferred to Sicily    ANSA 5.7.

Pope to visit island on 8 July  ANSA 1.7.

 Rep 1.7. video

 Portopalo (Sicily): 120 migrants rescued by GC  ANSA 7.7.

According to UNHCR 8'400 migrants crossed Central Med

during the first six months, 600 of which arrived in Malta

 HCR 5.7. / MT 5.7. 

Crotone (Calabria): Nightly rescue of 16 migrants near coast

ANSA 4.7.

Siracusa (Sicily): 109 Syrians intercepted by GdF and guided into harbor; three arrested for migrant smuggling  ANSA 4.7. 

Rep 4.7. / SM 5.7.

Siracusa (Sicily): Surprise arrival of around 150 migrants; at least 70 stopped by

police  ANSA 2.7. 

Strong winds prevailing

in Mediterranean ANSA 1.7.

290 sSAfricans brought ashore in joint Maltese-Italian night operation; ten flown to hospital

 MT 4.7. 

 Three migrants with gunshot wounds rescued by AFM were apparently fired at when fleeing a Libyan detention centre   LH 6.7. 

Tunisian mothers of missing 'harra-gas' send video letter to Lampedusa mayor Giusi Nicolini asking for the formation of an investigatory commission by the European Parliament  StM 2.7.  

Tunisian police prevents 8 migrants from departing by sea  TN 1.7.

EASO releases 2012 Report

EASO 8.7.  

Libyan PM Ali Zeidan meets Italian PM Letta in Rome to discuss security and border control; Italy ready to train 5'000 Libyan soldiers 

 LH 6.7. / TP 6.7.

 Maltese MEP Marlene Mizzi asks EUPL for information by Commission

about assistance to Libya on irregular migration   ToM 6.7.

Maltese MEP Roberta Metsola visits EASO to discuss intra EU relocation and EUREMA II; criticizes Muscat 'threat'   EASO 5.7. / MT 5.7.

Maltese PM Muscat does not exclude 'push-back' if necessary  MT 5.7. 

President François Hollande on a two-day visit to Tunisia    TAP 4.7.

LT 5.7. 

After arrival of 300 migrants Maltese PM calls on President van Rompuy to demand EU solidarity MT 4.7. 

Croatia joins EU; long Mediterranean coast line  EUCOM 1.7.