Thousands of migrants arrived on the shores of Lampedusa last week, overloading local resources on the Italian island. The BBC's Reha Kansara and Emir Nader visited the holding centre, also known ...

A 10-year-old girl was rescued off the coast of Lampedusa by the sailing ship Trotamar III. The little girl, originally from Sierra Leone, is believed to be the only survivor of the sinking of a ...

Forty-one migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, survivors told local media. A group of four people who survived the disaster told rescuers that they were on a boat ...

Seven migrants were rescued, but at least 20 are missing after their boat sank en route to Italy from Libya, the mayor of the Italian island of Lampedusa said on Wednesday. Amongst those saved was an ...

MILAN (AP) — An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa, believed to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked ...

Survivors, who were brought to Lampedusa, said the missing included ... The small boat set sail from the Libyan town of Zuwara late on Monday but got into difficulty in the early hours of Tuesday ...