Refugees and migrants sleeping rough on Lampedusa [‪File: Lidia Ginestra Giuffrida‬/Al Jazeera] “I’ve thought of dying many times. I left Cameroon six years ago – went to Algeria ...

Refugees who died off Italy 10 years ago remembered as new crisis flares Two tragic shipwrecks off Lampedusa shook the hearts of European leaders in 2013. Now, policies and rhetoric towards those ...

Tonight comprised the culmination of over two weeks of huge protests in the city of Hamburg in support of the Lampedusa refugee group. Over 9,000 people took to the streets to show their support for ...

Some 170,100 refugees arrived in Italy in 2014, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR, and the International Organization for Migration estimates that 21, 191 migrants reached ...

Many of the Africans are economic migrants, rather than refugees from conflict or political persecution. Among them was a 32-year-old Liberian called Siaka Kenny, who described himself as a ...

An Italian doctor, who has been working on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa for over 25 years, says that he still afraid of what he will find every time a new boat load of refugees arrives ...

GENEVA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said it was imperative that the thousands of migrants who have arrived in recent days on the Italian island of Lampedusa be ...

On eve of Lampedusa disaster anniversary, UNHCR warns that irregular Mediterranean crossings becoming more deadly New data on irregular crossings of the Mediterranean, covering the third quarter of ...