Here's a round-up of Al Jazeera's Middle East coverage this week. 12 October 2023 The Middle East This Week ­ Bombs dropping on Gaza around the cl… Read More

Lampedusa, Italy – Every year, Refaat Hazima visits the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, where tragedy struck his family 10 years ago. On October 10, 2013, Hazima and his wife Ferya… Read More

Lampedusa, Italy – More than 2,000 people and 289 children have died in 2023 trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of safety and a future in Europe. Many of those who survi… Read More

Italy’s prime minister has said that European countries must work together “to stop departures [from Africa]” and swiftly deport those turned down for asylum, who she sai… Read More

An Italian fishing boat was reportedly attacked and “heavily damaged” by the Libyan coast guard in international waters on the Mediterranean. Nobody was seriously injured. Earli… Read More

Libyan shipwreck survivors brought ashore in Italy The Italian authorities brought ashore seventeen migrants who had been saved following the most recent catastrophic shipwreck in the Med… Read More

At least 15 migrants are missing and four have been rescued after a migrant boat sank off the coast of Tunisia on Tuesday. The Tunisian coast guard issued a statement late on Tuesday (April… Read More

About 30 migrants were missing and presumed drowned after the overcrowded boat they were on capsized during a rescue attempt by a cargo ship off Libya’s coast, Italy’s coastguard… Read More

It is made up of the south part of Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, Shuangliu County, Longquanyi District, Xinjin County, Ziyang City, Jianyang City, Pengshan District of Meishan City and Renshou Count… Read More

A German migrant taxi NGO has claimed the European Union and its member states have worked to allow Libyan authorities to return migrants to North Africa from EU waters. The German migrant… Read More

As part of Turkey’s plan to keep a “long-term presence” in Libya, Ankara is is working with the… Read More

This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. The EU should stop channeling funds to Libya to manage migration and to train its coastguard, as the violatio… Read More

A woman and a child were found dead hours after they were left in their damaged boat by the Libyan coastguard Read More

The death of a Sudanese man from a gunshot wound after a group of migrants fled from guards taking them to a detention center in Libya is raising fresh troubling questions about the plight… Read More

Two suspected human traffickers also arrested and one missing after deadly firefight on the Mediterranean Sea Read More

In Libya, twenty people died following a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, Doctors without Borders said Thursday. The incident happened just hours after at least 74 migrants also died in a… Read More

At least 74 migrants died in a “devastating” shipwreck on Thursday off the Libyan coast, the United Nations said, the latest in a spate of migrant vessel sinkings in the central… Read More

Western mercenaries and businessmen, including British citizens, have swindled Libya’s rebel commander Khalifa Haftar out of tens of millions of dollars over the ye… Read More

Four migrants have died and up to 16 more are missing after trying to cross into Europe from North Africa on a small raft, Spain’s coastguard said on Wednesday. Rescuers saved 58 peopl… Read More