At least 26 bodies have been recovered from the sea after a Libyan trawler got into trouble last week, but hundreds are still missing, according to Tunisia's state-run TAP news agency.
At least 150 people drowned when a boat leaving Libya capsized off the Tunisian coast this week, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
CNN's Ivan Watson speaks to a man who's passionate about helping people making the perilous journey from Libya.
At least 150 people drowned when a boat leaving Libya capsized off the Tunisian coast on Wednesday, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
As many as 270 Libyan refugees were missing in the sea after the overcrowded boat they were in encountered bad weather, the Tunisian state-run TAP news agency reported.
When the boat people arrive at this small Italian island on the southern edge of Europe, many look lost, not even sure what country they are in.
Libyan refugees say they made the treacherous trip by sea to escape fighting in their country. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
Shortly after dawn, an open blue wooden fishing boat from Libya limped its way into the port of this tiny island, crammed with at least 166 shivering passengers, all of them apparently migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa.
More than 400 people fleeing Libya and Tunisia arrived overnight in an Italian island on Saturday, the latest in a stream of refugees escaping volatile and unstable North Africa.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited a small Mediterranean island Saturday to press home his message that European countries must help deal with a "human tsunami" of North African migrants.
Rescue crews continued their search Thursday for more than 200 people after the boat they were in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
An estimated 100 or more would-be North African migrants remained missing Wednesday, a day after the boat they were in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said. The incident is the latest of a number of tragic ends in what has become a steady flow of people who set sail from Tunisia to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
About 150 people were missing Wednesday after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian Coast Guard said.
Italy's coast guard says at least 1,623 migrants have landed on the tiny island of Lampedusa over a 24-hour period.
Neil Curry reports on the tragic story of a failed attempt by some Tunisians to flee the country's economic despair.
A group of men gather to say prayers over the graves of two friends in the rural town of Sedouikech. They say the men died together when the boat they hoped would help them escape to Europe overturned and sank after a collision with a Tunisian coastguard patrol boat.
Tunisia rejected the idea of Italian security forces deploying in the north African country to help fight illegal immigration, the country's state news agency reported Monday.
Southern Italy is facing a potential "humanitarian emergency" as waves of Tunisians fleeing unrest in north Africa are landing on a coastal island near Sicily, the country's official ANSA news agency reported Sunday.
Up to 75 migrants are missing and feared dead after a harrowing 20-day journey from northern Africa to Europe, a United Nations agency said Friday.
Desperation, sophisticated smuggling operations and the emergence of a small Italian island as a migrant destination provide the sad backdrop to Monday's tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea -- the capsizing of a boat carrying African migrants from Libya to Italy.
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