Because of its location as the closest Italian island to Africa, Lampedusa is a common destination for African refugees seeking to enter European Union countries, and shipwrecks off its shores are ...

Transferring migrants from the island of Lampedusa to other locations across the country is the only solution Italian authorities have provided to relieve pressure on the local reception centre, ...

The Sicilian channel, near the Italian island of Lampedusa, is the only location in the Atlantic region where both pregnant females and newly born great whites have been sighted.

Once popular holiday destination, Lampedusa now gateway to EU for migrants Lampedusa has always been point of interest due to its strategic location in central Mediterranean Sea Dilara Hamit | 24. ...

Illegal migrants from Tunisia and Libya flood the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. 29 March 2011 • 4:29pm An immigration crisis on Italy's southern islands is getting worse as more boats arrive ...

A museum on the island of Lampedusa dedicated to migrants who have lost their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea has been closed as prime minister Giorgia Meloni ramps up efforts to stop the boats.

In the last 24 hours, 22 boats carrying over 1,600 persons, nearly all young Tunisian males, have landed on the small Italian island of Lampedusa. This brings the total number of Tunisians having ...

Around 1,300 migrants are crowded into one reception centre on the island of Lampedusa after a ... The government's programme for the transfer of migrants to other locations was immediately ...

Lampedusa funeral protested 10/21/2013 October 21, 2013. Dozens of survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Italy that killed hundreds of African migrants have protested a funeral for the victims ...

This week more than 11,560 migrants have journeyed to this small, stubbly spot in the central Mediterranean, making it both the location and physical symbol of Europe's current migration crisis.