Arrivals

2013   month:   644

2013   cumul.:  644

2012   month:     439

2012   cumul.:     511

Arrivals

2013   month:    363

2013   cumul.:   681

2012   month:       62

2012   cumul.:     254

Arrivals

2013   month:   102

2013   cumul.:   102

2012   month:         0

2012   cumul.:       68

Victims

2013   month:     43

2013   cumul.:    44

2012   month:        9

2012   cumul.:      64

Total Arrivals

month:     1'109

cumul.:    1'427

Tunisia:         22

Libya:          779

other:          626

All told 500 migrants arrived during last 48 hours  ANSA 30.3.

 video / SM 30.3.

 Two more rubber dinghies with 180 migrants aboard spotted 90 NM off the island  ANSA 29.3.

GC intercepts 260 sub-

Saharan Africans travelling on three boats

 ANSA 29.3. / Rep 29.3. 

video 

Siracusa (Sicily): GdF intercepts a boat with 128 migrants of various nationality  ANSA 28.3.

Augusta (Sicily): Arrival of 86 Egyptians on a small wooden vessel   Rep 28.3.

Siculiana (Sicily): Police stop 24 North-Africans upon arrival; GdF manages to catch fleeing vessel and arrest three migrant smugglers  ANSA 28.3.

AFM rescue 82 Somali mi-grants 68 NM off the island

travelling on a rubber dingy   ToM 29.3. / video

Libyan border guards stop 265 illegal immigrants in the southern Al Wigh area  LH 31.3.

Two migrants die from hyper-thermia during Lampedusa transfer

ANSA 30.3.  / Rep 30.3.

According to 'Save the Children' migrants (including minors) were directly repatriated after arrival in Sicily  StC 29.3. 

65 migrants of different nationality 

rescued by Tunisian coast guard off Médenine on way from Libya to Italy

 FFM 28.3. (unconfirmed)

 The 'Forum Tunisien Pour Les Droits Economiques et Sociaux' (FTDES) publishes a report on 'Les Tunisien disparus en mer en 2012'

March 2013 / LT 9.6. 

World Social Forum held in Tunis from 26 to 30 March; migration a topic

TAP 25.3. / BNT 29.3. / TAP 31.3.

Rep 1.4. 

Libyan PM Ali Zeidan looks to UAE for police and security expertise 

  LH 28.3.

GC intercepts two young Tunisians 16 NM off the is-land, arriving from Ker-kenah on a tiny boat

Rep/video 27.3.

Otranto (Apulia): 16 migrants ('Asians'?) rescued by GC

ANSA 23.3.

Stormy Mediterranean

Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulia): Carabinieri discover 73 'Asian' migrants after landing

  Rep 18.3.

Nine bodies of an accident found on shore near Sabratha (West of Tripoli) bringing total number of victims to 41; 43 rescued      LH 19.3. 

 EU publishes report on 'Fundamental Rights at the EU’s Southern Sea Borders' EUCOM 27.3. / FRA 27.3.

Head of EU border support mission to visit Libya    LH 23.3. 

Egyptian & Libyan military hold talks over border control  LN 20.3. 

Another 65 migrants brought ashore by GC

Ansa 11.3. / Rep 11.3.

 GC responds to satellite phone alarm and rescues 77 East-Africans in Libyan waters from rubber dinghy  ANSA 11.3. / video RepTV

Stormy Mediterranean

 ToM 14.3. 

 20 migrants discovered in a fishing boat near Marsa beach  ToM 12.3. 

Three Malis receive two-year jail terms for organizing (failed) escape of 25 migrants from Malta to Italy in 2010; trial of Maltese helper to follow

 ToM 13.3.

 The Security Council extends mandate of United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) for another year  

    LH 14.3.

Maltese PM Joseph Muscat presents new cabinet  ToM 13.3. 

Solid majority for Labour in Maltese parliamentary elections  ToM 10.3.  

Tunisian PM designate Larayedh pre-sents new cabinet list to President Marzouki; key ministries go to inde-pendent personalities 

TAP 8.3. / ANSAmed 8.3.

Libyan President Magarief attacked; GNC sessions suspended

 LH 6.3. / LH 28.2.

Otranto (Apulia): GC rescues 9 migrants from sinking boat; re-ports about possible victims investigated  ANSA 6.3. 

 Rep 6.3.

Catania (Sicily): Abandoned 12 m wooden vessel with Arabic in-scription discovered on beach

ANSA 6.3.

 Stormy Mediterranean

Torre Cuba (Sicily): Surprise landing of 27 North-Africans; 2 Egyptians arrested for migrant smuggling   ANSA 3.3.

Agrigento court finds three Somalis and one Moroccan guilty of migrant smuggling involving 25 casualties off Lampedusa in August 2011

ANSA 4.3. /  Rep. 4.3.

Hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans wait in Libyan detention centers for (cumbersome) repatriation  LH 4.3. 

EU JHA Council decides to implement SIS II; briefings on 'smart borders' and Maghreb security  EUCL 7./8.3. 

EU and INTERPOL officials inaugurate real-time passport control system at Tripoli International Airport 

 EUCOM 6.3. / MEO 6.3.