More than 20 people are missing after attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa. Hundreds of others were rescued and brought to Italy by the coast guard and the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship.
The bodies of 29 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries have been recovered off the Tunisian coast after three migrant vessels suffered shipwreck. The latest tragedy comes after Tunisia's President gave a speech last month, in which he tried to turn public sentiment against irregular migrants, resulting in a growing exodus.
Dozens of migrants are thought to have died after their inflatable rubber boat sunk off the coast of Libya, marking the latest tragedy on the world's deadliest migration route. Authorities have retrieved 11 bodies so far.
The UN refugee agency said that 326 people have died or gone missing in the attempt to reach Greece via the Eastern Mediterranean from Turkey and other states in 2022. That's nearly three times as many as in 2021.
Eighty-eight people were rescued at the weekend from a small boat off Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The migrants had left Gambia more than three weeks ago. Two men died during the journey.