Now playing Next world news Two-year-old dead after migrant boat capsizes off Lampedusa A two-year-old girl has drowned, and eight other people are missing after a migrant boat capsized near a reef off Lampedusa island. 21/11/2023
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Now playing Next Tunisia Tunisia and Libya agree to share responsibility for stranded migrants A spokesperson for Tunisia's interior ministry said migrants were transferred to reception centres and provided with health and psychological care, with the help of the Tunisian Red Crescent. 11/08/2023
Now playing Next Italy Four shipwrecks in five days: Why migrants keep dying in the Med Forty-one migrants died off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to the only four survivors, in the latest shipwrecks reported in the Mediterranean Sea. 09/08/2023
Now playing Next no comment No comment videos of the week Let the pictures tell the story. 22/07/2023
Now playing Next no comment Libyan border guards rescue migrants in remote desert area Border guards in Libya have rescued a group of migrants who said they were left in the remote desert area by authorities in neighbouring Tunisia. 17/07/2023
Now playing Next Tunisia 15 more migrants found dead off Tunisia's coast The International Organization for Migration says 1,895 people have died or gone missing en route from northern Africa across the central Mediterranean this year. 15/07/2023
Now playing Next Italy 1,300 migrants overcrowd Lampedusa reception centre designed for 400 Around 1,300 migrants are crowded into one reception centre on the island of Lampedusa after a new wave of boats arrived since Saturday. 19/06/2023
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Now playing Next world news Body of toddler found by Tunisian coastguards after sinking of migrant Tunisian coastguards found the body of a toddler on Friday, two days after two boats operated by people smugglers sank off the coast. Forty people, including five other children and the girl's mother, are still missing. 03/06/2023
Now playing Next world news Malta orders ships not to help boat with 400 people onboard NGOs have urged authorities to step in after a vessel adrift in the Mediterranean Sea called the Alarm Phone hotline on Sunday. 10/04/2023
Now playing Next world news Meloni cabinet approves decree for new trafficking law The proposed law would punish human traffickers with up to 30 years in prison. It would also target those who finance smuggling operations. 09/03/2023
Now playing Next no comment Watch: More than 145 migrants rescued at sea arrive in Lampedusa Another 149 migrants, including 17 minors, arrived in Lampedusa after being rescued by a patrol boat. Egyptians, Syrians, Bengalis, Palestinians, and Pakistanis traveled on an 11-metre vessel that set sail from Sfax, Tunisia. 08/12/2022
Now playing Next no comment Growing anger at waste crisis gripping Tunisia's second city Rubbish has been piling up in the streets of Sfax, as landfill sites reach capacity and local residents are forced to burn their own refuse. 18/11/2022
Now playing Next Tunisia Seventy five missing after migrant boat sinks off the coast of Tunisia Seventy five people are missing, feared drowned, after a crowded boat of migrants sank off the coast of Tunisia on Wednesday morning, with the number of people risking their lives on the dangerous crossing to Europe on the rise. 25/05/2022
Now playing Next no comment Turtles freed in Tunisia with tracking monitor Three rescued loggerhead turtles are released into the Mediterranean off the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax, one, named Marwa, with a tracking beacon glued to its shell to help researchers better protect the threatened species. 22/05/2022
