Tag: Mediterranean Sea
A Cruise on the Mediterranean Sea
When we had a 'Day at Sea', we sailed for between 36 and 40 hours without seeing any land area!…
70 illegal migrants rescued in Mediterranean Sea
The crew of the Geo Barents now has just over 360 rescued people on board, MSF said on Friday.
Mediterranean Sea: Rescued Pregnant women taken to safety
Two pregnant women who were rescued in the Mediterranean by Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms earlier this week have been…
UNHCR alarms as Mediterranean Sea deaths pass 1,500 mark
No fewer than 1,500 refugees and migrants have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean in the first seven…
Spanish Maritime Rescue confirms 114 rescued in Mediterranean
Spanish Maritime Rescue Services confirmed that one person died and 114 others were rescued from six inflatable dinghies close to…
2 bodies recovered off Mediterranean coast
About 2,300 people have been rescued and two bodies recovered in the latest migrant rescues in the central Mediterranean, the…
10,000 Nigerians die crossing the Mediterranean Sea
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has reported that no fewer than 10,000 Nigerians died between January and May 2017 while…
3,000 migrants rescued on Mediterranean Sea
No fewer than 3,000 migrants were rescued trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday, the International Organisation for Migration…
200 feared dead in two migrant shipwrecks off Libya coast
Almost 200 people are feared to have died in two Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwrecks during the weekend, according to reports…
UN says 128 Nigerians, other migrants drown in Mediterranean Sea in 21 days
International Organisation on Migration (IOM), said 128 migrants, comprising Nigerians and other West Africans, died while crossing Mediterranean Sea to…
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240 migrants perish in Mediterranean Sea off Libya coast
More than 240 people have died in boats in the Mediterranean Sea this week, according to officials, as horrifying new…
Gambia national goalkeeper dies crossing Mediterranean to Italy
The goalkeeper of Gambia women’s national soccer team is believed to have died while trying to migrate to Italy, a…
14 Italy-bound migrants found dead, 5,700 rescued
Fourteen bodies have been recovered and about 5,700 people have been saved in Mediterranean Sea migrant rescues during the past…
Italy rescues 6,500 migrants from Mediterranean
The Italian coast guard has saved 6,500 migrants most believed to be Africans, off the Libyan coast in 40 separate…
EgyptAir second black box pulled out of sea
The second black box of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was…
104 migrant bodies washed up Libyan beach
The bodies of at least 104 migrants have washed up on a beach in the western Libyan town of Zwara,…
EgyptAir confirms wreckage of crashed plane found
Wreckage from an EgyptAir plane carrying 66 people that crashed Thursday in the Mediterranean has been found, the airline said,…
‘Largest ever’ Med gas field found off Egypt – Eni
Cairo (AFP) – Italian energy giant Eni on Sunday announced the discovery of the “largest ever” offshore natural gas field…
Mediterranean Sea: Over 5,000 migrants drown since 2014
Over 1,750 migrants have perished in the Mediterranean since the start of the year — more than 30 times higher…
Breaking: 700 African migrants drown in Libyan waters
Seven hundred people are feared to have drowned when a fishing boat smuggling migrants to Europe capsized off Libya, the…
At least 2 dead, 6 rescued from shipwreck near Malta
A young girl was one of at least two migrants who drowned and six more were rescued when their boat…
City state Monaco expands into the sea
Monaco plans to expand its tiny territory by building a six hectare peninsula into the Mediterranean, the city-state’s monarch Prince…