The past 4th May, the local municipality of Lampedusa opened a new playground in Via Roma, dedicating it to an Ivorian baby, born in the island on 31st July 2021. This episode was celebrated as the first birth in the island in the last 50 years.

Shipwreck, 22 survivors, 9 bodies and 15 missing.

After 20 days of no arrivals, just in the first week of May, around 1240 people reached the coasts of Lampedusa, with a peak of 17 disembarkments which brought 600 people just on the 5th May. More than half of the people (685) were from countries like Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, Egypt and Morocco, while at least ⅓ of people from...

Lampedusa is the largest of the Pelagie Islands (20km2) with 6,000 inhabitants, located approximately 60 nautical miles from the Tunisian coast and 110 miles from the Sicilian coast.

In the first three months of 2024, just over 6600 people arrived on the shores of the island of Lampedusa, both autonomously or at the Favaloro Pier, escorted by the Italian Guardia di Finanza or Coast Guard.

Detaining Civil Fleet Ships means: let more people die at sea ….

2023, a year marked by a large increase in sea arrivals in comparison to the year before, and not only on the Central Mediterranean route. 2023, a year of intensified attempts by the EU to expand border control in collaboration with its autocratic partners in North Africa. 2023, another year of even tougher racist agitation and deprivation of...