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British intelligence agencies have warned that the ISIS terror group has plans to launch attacks this Summer on several Mediterranean countries, including Morocco, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, and Turkey ISIS is planning Sri Lanka-style attacks in the Mediterranean, reported local daily Al Massae in its issue of Tuesday June 4th, referring to warnings by the British […]
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 carrying 169 sub-Saharan nationals who were attempting to cross to Europe. The immigrants were brought safe and sound to Moroccan Mediterranean ports, the military source added. Also on Sunday evening, […]
Prosecutors General from Europe and Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, and Tunisia) agreed on the Guiding Principles of the EuroMed Forum of Prosecutors General setting up the main objectives and principles of collaboration, communication and continuation of the Forum with the objective of improving international judicial cooperation. The agreement […]
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 the North African country said the pilot was unharmed as he was able to eject safely before the aircraft, an F-5, plunged into the sea. The pilot was rescued by […]
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 leading destination this year. The data show a drop in the region’s total arrivals compared with 139,677 arrivals across the region through the same period last year, and 312,153 at […]
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 France, to “find the thread of a Mediterranean policy.” “Ten years after the Union for the Mediterranean, we must find the thread of a Mediterranean policy,” said the president during […]
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 development of solutions for food systems and water resources in the Mediterranean basin. Prima has been launched to help the agricultural sector in the Mediterranean area, which has been suffering […]
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 is rising dramatically. This weekend, at least eight people died and 86 others were rescued after their small inflatable boat sank off the coast of Libya, according to the Italian […]
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 where the migrants are stranded. The European Union led by Italy has been supporting Libyan authorities to stem the illegal trafficking of humans on the Mediterranean. Libyan coastguards have been […]
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 days earlier, Spain rescued 57 migrants at sea on Saturday as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean towards Europe from Morocco. Spain has become the new backdoor to Europe following […]