Tunisia Bound

Tunis, Aug 17, 2020 - Italy has no more room for illegal migrants, its foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday on a visit to Tunisia, from where many of them cross the Mediterranean Sea. After a meeting with the Tunisian President Kais Saied, Italy's top diplomat...

On Monday, 10 August, special flights will be organized to bring back home Tunisian migrants who landed in Italy over the past weeks. The flights have been made possible after uproar in Italy resulted in the calling by the Italian foreign ministry of the Tunisian...

Lampedusa, Italy - [Photo: Giorgia Meloni] - Out in the Mediterranean, under a baking sun, fisherman Ezio Billeci comes across a boat of vulnerable migrants and calls for help, but for hours the only response he gets from Italian authorities is to "stand by". The...

Dozens of migrants escaped quarantine in Sicily Monday, a day after nearly 200 others fled a separate holding facility as Italy prepared a navy ship to house arriving migrants. Hundreds continue to arrive daily in southern Italy, especially on the islands of Lampedusa...