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Mako Marine concludes delivery of boats to Mozambique’s military

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South African inflatable boat manufacturer Mako Marine has concluded the delivery of a number of inflatable boats to the Armed Forces of Mozambique (FADM). Mozambique’s...

Rescuers pull 394 migrants from dangerously overcrowded boat off Tunisia

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Two humanitarian rescue ships pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean overnight on Sunday in an operation lasting about...

Nearly 600 rescued migrants disembark from charity boat in Italy

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Hundreds of migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean disembarked on Friday in the southern Italian town of Augusta, in Sicily, after Rome-based maritime authorities...

Over 40 feared dead after boat carrying Mozambique conflict victims sinks

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More than 40 people were feared to have drowned in Mozambique’s conflict-torn north after their boat sank, the administrator of an island district said...

Migrant boat sinks off Tunisia, two dead

A boat carrying migrants sank off Tunisia drowning at least two with nine rescued and 14 missing, a coastguard official said. The boat sank...

Migrants die off Libya

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Fifteen migrants died in a boat off the Libyan coast after 12 days at sea without food or water, an Egyptian survivor...

Death toll in Uganda boat accident rises

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The death toll from a boat accident on Lake Victoria over the weekend rose to 33, Ugandan police said, as survivors described...

Migrant boat sinks off Turkey

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Four people died when a migrant boat sank off the west coast of Turkey, the Turkish interior ministry said, adding 30 migrants...

Libya boat wreck claims 100 plus lives

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More than 100 migrants died this month when crowded rubber boats were wrecked off the coast of Libya, the MSF aid agency...

Migrant return to Libya by Italian boat could be illegal

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A rescue operation in which an Italian towboat rescued more than 100 migrants and returned them to Libya may be in breach...

Tunisia allows boat migrants port access

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Tunisia agreed to accept a boat carrying around 40 African migrants stranded for two weeks off the country's coast after first allowing...

Migrant rescue boat heads for Spain as row simmers

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An ocean rescue charity is taking a lone survivor and the bodies of two dead migrants to Spain, after clashing with Italy...

Migrant boat sinks off Cyprus

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Nineteen people died when a boat carrying about 150 migrants sank off the coast of northern Cyprus and rescuers were searching for...

Italy refuses migrant boat port access

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Italy will refuse to let a humanitarian ship carrying more than 600 migrants dock at its ports and asked the island of...

Tunisian interior minister fired after migrant boat disaster

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Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed fired Interior Minister Lotfi Brahem, a government statement said, after one of the worst migrant boat accidents...

UN aid boat attacked

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Unidentified forces attacked a UN aid vessel off the Yemeni port Hodeidah at the weekend and started a fire in the engine...

Tunisian migrant boat sinking death toll rises

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The death toll from a ship packed with migrants that sank off the Tunisian coast last weekend rose to 60, the United...

Migrant boat sinks off Tunisia

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At least 48 migrants were killed when their boat sank off Tunisia's coast and 67 others were rescued by the coast guard,...

Algeria picks up almost 300 boat migrants

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Algeria's coastguard picked up 286 illegal migrants heading across the Mediterranean to Europe by boat, the Defence Ministry said. The migrants were...

NGO rescue boat seized by Italian coastguard

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The Italian coastguard seized a migrant rescue boat operated by a German aid groups suspected of aiding illegal immigration from Libya, a...

Cameroon military boat sinks – more than 30 missing

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More than 30 people are missing after a boat belonging to an elite Cameroonian military unit sank off the coast, the president's...

Two day search ends with rescue of migrants

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The Spanish coast guard rescued three men from a half-sunk dinghy stranded in the Mediterranean, after a two-day search for a boat...

Hundreds of Mediterranean migrants feared dead

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More than 200 migrants are feared to have died in the Mediterranean over the weekend, according to testimony from survivors and several...

Libyan fishermen find dead migrants in boat

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Libyan fishermen found the bodies of 28 illegal migrants who appeared to have died of thirst and hunger after their boat broke...

More than a thousand migrants picked up off Libya

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Humanitarian ships rescued almost 1,200 migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea at the weekend on an array of small, tightly packed boats, Doctors...

Migrants arrive safely in Sicily

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Almost 1,300 migrants arrived in Sicily on rescue ships over the weekend after crossing the Mediterranean, while a 16-year-old boy died on...

Italy rescues 2,500 boat migrants in three days

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Almost 2,500 boat migrants were rescued in the past three days, the Italian Coast Guard said, as this year's arrivals already outpace...

Migrant bodies recovered, 13 in shipping container

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The bodies of 27 migrants have been recovered in Western Libya, 13 who died of suffocation in a shipping container, the Red...

A thousand boat migrants rescued

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Some 1,000 migrants were saved from leaky boats in the central Mediterranean on Friday and one person was found dead, Italy's coast...

Two weeks into 2017, Med migrants deaths rise on last year

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At least 219 migrants and refugees are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean so far this year, more than double than...

Scores of migrants feared dead, 13 bodies found in Mediterranean

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At least eight migrants died when their boat overturned off the coast of Libya on Saturday but the death toll may be...

Break in weather lets Italian coastguard rescue boat migrants

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Some 800 migrants were plucked from flimsy rubber boats on Thursday, Italy's coastguard said, as Libya-based people smugglers took advantage of a...

Italy convicts Tunisian over sinking that killed migrants

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A Tunisian man accused of being the captain of a migrant boat that sank killing almost 700 people was found guilty of...

Rescuers save more than a thousand migrants, find six bodies

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Rescuers plucked 1,164 people from rubber and wooden boats in the Mediterranean during heavy thunderstorms on Sunday and recovered six dead bodies...

Four migrants drown, 34 rescued – Moroccan authorities

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Four African migrants drowned and 34 were rescued after their boat sank in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, Moroccan authorities said. The Mediterranean between...

Italian coastguard rescues more than a thousand boat migrants

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More than 1,000 migrants were plucked from over-crowded boats and 16 bodies recovered in the past two days, Italy's coastguard said on...

Italian coastguard rescues more than 1,400 migrants

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Some 1,400 boat migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe were rescued on Tuesday, Italy's coastguard said after...

Migrant rescue ship reaches Italy after deadly week in the Mediterranean

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A rescue ship carrying more than 200 migrants and eight bodies docked in Sicily on Sunday after a deadly week in the...

About 100 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean

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Six migrants died and up to 100 more were missing and feared dead after their rubber boat sank in the Mediterranean on...

Training Libya coastguard can help cut migrant deaths

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Training Libya's coastguard to stop people smugglers and rescue boat migrants could help save lives and avoid incidents in which Libyan officials...

Migrants die in stormy seas off Libya

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At least 12 migrants died off the coast of Libya on Wednesday after they put to sea in stormy weather, the Italian...

China donating boats, guns to Ghana

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China is donating four patrol boats, machineguns and ammunition to Ghana as part of its efforts to strengthen defence cooperation with the...

Boat migrant bodies washed up in western Libya

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The bodies of 16 migrants have washed up at the western Libyan city of Zuwara, a Red Crescent spokesman said on Sunday. Al-Khamis...

Ninety plus migrants believed missing after boat sinks off Libya

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More than 90 migrants are believed missing after their boat sank off the coast of western Libya on Wednesday, a coastguard spokesman...

More than two thousand migrants rescued in Mediterranean, 16 bodies recovered

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About 2,200 migrants were plucked to safety in the central Mediterranean in 21 rescue missions on Monday and 16 bodies were recovered,...

“No more Mr Nice Guy”: EU gets tough on African migrants

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Encouraged by their success in halting a mass influx of refugees by closing Greek borders and cutting a controversial deal with Turkey,...

Destitute migrants pile up in Djibouti as Yemen sends boats back

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Thousands of Ethiopians trekking through desert heat and war in Yemen for the sake of a low-paid job in Saudi Arabia risk...

Migrants missing after late night Mediterranean rescue

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At least 17 migrants are missing after a night-time rescue of more than 100 others from a partially submerged rubber boat off...

More than four thousands boat migrants saved, 28 die trying to...

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More than 4,650 migrants were saved on Tuesday and 28 bodies recovered in more than 30 rescue missions off the Libyan coast,...

More than six thousand migrants plucked from sea in one day,...

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About 6,055 migrants were rescued and 22 found dead on the perilous sea route to Europe on Monday, one of the highest...