Mediterranean migrant route

The Italian coast guard has recovered 14 more bodies from last week’s shipwreck in the Ionian Sea off the southern Italian coastline.

An aid group said Saturday it recovered the bodies of 11 migrants off the Libyan coast and transferred them to an Italian coast guard ship.

The EU’s Frontex border agency said illegal migrant crossings of the West African route to the Canary Islands have hit a record high.

The network made money by charging families for providing them often false information about migrants who had died at sea.

A report highlights the danger migrants are put in by callous people smugglers, who grow rich on human suffering. 

More than 2,500 illegal boat migrants have drowned to death or have gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the U.N. reported.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni vowed “extraordinary measures” to deal with the migrant crisis, including calling anew for a naval blockade.

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said.

Italy is on pace to see a record number of illegal boat migrants land on its shores as landings surged by 150 per cent.

Pakistan widens manhunt for human traffickers after a tragedy off the Greek coast last week that left more than 500 migrants feared drowned.

Germany and France are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea from countries like Tunisia.

The Greek coast guard said that a ship that went down off the country’s south coast left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned.

Nine Egyptian men, alleged to be people smugglers, have been arrested after a migrant boat capsized off Greece, leaving hundreds feared dead.

When they have larger boats, Med smugglers are staying in international waters as they pass by Greece to try to avoid coast guard patrols.

“We are ready to drown and die to improve our situation,” said a Syrian who identified himself only as Mohamed.

January to March of this year was the deadliest first quarter for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean since 2017, with 441 deaths.

“We have indications [Wagner] are very active and in contact with gangs of traffickers and militiamen… smuggling migrants.”

Govt figures reveal the number of illegals coming to Italy has nearly tripled this year compared to the same period in 2022.

An Italian intelligence report released this week says migrant “taxi” ship NGOs help people-smugglers and cause more deaths at sea.

Italian prosecutors have revealed that smugglers charged as much as 8,000 euros each for a voyage that led to the deaths of dozens of people.

An NGO migrant “taxi” ship has been fined 10,000 euros and placed into administrative detention for 20 days for violating a security decree enacted by the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

73 people are missing and presumed dead after people smugglers put them on an inflatable boat that sank off the coast of Libya. 

Three migrants died and 16 others were rescued after a dinghy transporting them from the nearby coast of Turkey hit rocks in high winds.

The bodies of eight migrants and 42 survivors have been recovered in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa, ANSA reported.

Italy has seen a total of 3,862 illegal arrivals in over two weeks so far this year, more than the same period in 2021 and 2022 combined. 

A 14-month-old baby was among three people led to their deaths by migrant smugglers after a boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Italian leftists are furious over Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni directing NGO migrant “taxi” ships to drop off migrants in cities run by leftist mayors.

NGOs operating migrant “taxi” ships have complained to the European Union about new Italian border controls, but the bloc has claimed it will not get involved.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has called on migrant taxi NGOs to stop their “ferry service” in the Mediterranean. 

A migrant taxi has already likely violated the decree regulating NGO ship actions, and another says it will ignore any rules it doesn’t like. 

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has announced that the new decree to regulate migrant taxi NGOs will not come into force until early next year.

The number of illegals landing is past 100,000 for the first time since 2017, as the government struggles to deal with waves of boats.

A migrant taxi NGO has stated that new regulations from the Italian governmentmay cause NGOs to halt their activity in the Mediterranean. 

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has slammed France and Germany for taking 95 of the nearly 94,000 migrants who have arrived in Italy this year. 

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is said to be considering backing a “Marshall Plan” for Africa as a long-term solution to halt migration flows.

Migrant taxi NGO ships dropped off over 500 in Italy over the weekend, despite promises from PM Giorgia Meloni to halt their activity.