Mediterranean migration route

There were just 47 survivors when a boat carrying over 120 people, capsized off the Libyan coast on Thursday.
IOM/Hussein Ben Mosa

More tragedy on the Mediterranean as 74 migrants reportedly drown off Libya coast

12 November 2020
Migrants and Refugees

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Thursday reported yet another devastating shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean, which has claimed the lives of at least 74 migrants off the coast of Khums, Libya. It is the eighth such incident since the beginning of October.

Migrants who have been returned to shore in Libya after attempting to cross the sea to Europe are supported by aid workers from the IOM.
IOM Libya

Mediterranean Sea: ‘Cycle of violence’ for fleeing migrants must be addressed

2 October 2020
Migrants and Refugees

The UN human rights office OHCHR, called on Friday for urgent action to address the “unimaginable horrors” faced by migrants attempting to cross the central Mediterranean Sea in search of safety in Europe.

Migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea are rescued by a Belgian ship (file photo).
Frontex/Francesco Malavolta

Thousands suffer extreme rights abuses journeying to Africa’s Mediterranean coast, say humanitarians

29 July 2020
Migrants and Refugees

Thousands of refugees and migrants in eastern and western Africa, are dying while others face harrowing abuse in their attempts to reach the continent’s Mediterranean coast in search of a better life, a joint UN/Danish Refugee Council report said on Wednesday.

A Somali woman arrives in Yemen.
IOM

Amidst protection challenges, Eastern Route outpaces Mediterranean for people leaving Africa

14 February 2020
Migrants and Refugees

A monthly average of 11,500 people traveling from the Horn of Africa to Yemen last year made the so-called Eastern Route the busiest maritime migration path on earth, the UN migration agency said on Friday.