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Tag: Mediterranean
Morocco: 169 Sub-Saharan immigrants rescued in Mediterranean; human trafficker arrested in Asilah
Royal Navy coastguard, operating in the Mediterranean, on Sunday night, assisted several makeshift inflatable boats that encountered difficulties, said a military source. The boats were ... Read More
Prosecutors General from Europe, Mediterranean committed to international judicial cooperation
EuroMed Forum 2019 (Banner) Prosecutors General from Europe and Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, and Tunisia) agreed on the ... Read More
Tunisia: Military Jet Crashes into Mediterranean during Drill
A Tunisian military aircraft crashed Wednesday into the Mediterranean during a military exercise involving 10 other countries bordering on the sea. The Defense Ministry of ... Read More
Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 84,345 in 2018; Deaths Reach 1,777
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 84,345 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 3 October, with 38,451 to Spain, the ... Read More
A Summit on the Mediterranean in Marseille in 2019, French President Announces
President Emmanuel Macron of France announced Monday that a summit on the Mediterranean will be held in "the early summer of 2019" in Marseille, south-eastern ... Read More
Morocco & EU Ink Agreement for Sustainable Management of Water
Morocco and the European Union have signed the "Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area" (PRIMA), a joint international program focusing on the ... Read More
Migrants Continue to Lose their Lives off Libya’s Coast
Migrants and particularly Sub-Saharans continue to risk everything for a better life in Europe. The number of those who lost their lives in the Mediterranean ... Read More
Libya: UN blasts EU-backed anti-migration plan over gross human rights abuses
The UN Tuesday lambasted in a report the EU-backed plan meant to fight illegal migration in Libya over the inhuman conditions prevailing in the camps ... Read More
Spain Saves 19 Algerian Migrants in Mediterranean
Spanish rescue service said Monday it has saved 19 migrants from Algeria as they were attempting to cross the Mediterranean onboard a small boat. Two ... Read More
Migrant Crossings from North Africa to Spain Double in 2017
Would-be migrants are increasingly avoiding passing through conflict-wracked Libya on their treacherous sea journey to Europe in favor of the more peaceful and closer western ... Read More