THE NIGERIAN SLAVE MONGERS HYPOCRISY BY Chukwubike OC part 1

LIBYANS   ENSLAVING "SLAVES"
OUR HYPOCRISY
OUR SILENCE
SOCIETAL  CHANGES 
ARE WE ALL IN IT?

After seeing the few photographs  recently  coming from Libya  and the hypocritical out cry from African countries especially Nigeria I would like us to answer some of  these questions:

• HOW, WHY AND FROM WHERE DID THEY GET THERE? As we wail and curse Libyans  we ask ourselves and the govt,why,how and from where did they get there? Is this the first time we are hearing of this phenomenon? Is it cheaper for the govt to send plans to cart away her citizens than making  correct educational policies that would mould out prepared, productive  and employable youths to face the present world economic changes ? Why are the victims people predominantly from a particular geographical area ? 
• IS IT OUR FIRST TIME OF SEEING SLAVES ? Is it not hypocrisy of the highest level to deny we are not all slave mongers? From our Clergy,politicians,civil servants,business people and even to  our Nollywood and entertainment people: the neo-bourgeois  we have been shouting at the Libyans but just take a second and  have a look in your household and around you  now and tell me if  you do not have one or two 'slaves'? Are you not deceiving your conscience with the employment or the  'assisting a relation that would have been in a worse situation' reason? Those Libyan animals have exactly the same reasons like you.  Are you treating him or her  like your child or if employed are you following the govt regulations in time and stipend ? Tell me now are you a slave monger or not? Are we not all Libyans on different levels with different reasons/motives?
• HAVE WE NOT SENT OUT SLAVES TO WORK FOR US? As we enslave in Nigeria do we (those that have cash)  not send our brothers and sisters to other countries to go and 'survive' there? Do we not sell lands and other properties to send untrained, unskilled  and unemployable people overseas? To do what?  Do we not curse them when they do not send cash ,cars or build houses in their first years overseas  still knowing  that even the hosts and employers do not even boast of such at the same short time? Do we not  NOW in our churches, cultural places and placements  show more apparent respect to those that enslaved themselves more and made money more and quicker for that maatter?
• Are you not deceiving yourself when you (especially those from the Mid-western states) believe that your daughter with ring worms on her head,without even a complete high school education is going to Italy through the Sahara desert and Mediterranean sea to work in an Italian restaurant?  Can you see now who the slave monger is? He is not the Libyan certainly; that Libyan rapist  is just  a criminal managing the slaves you sent to him.
• TO BE CONTINUED.........

Chukwubike Okey C (works in the Italian migration services for 16 years) 

Cisterna celebra la “ricchezza della diversità”.

Torna la Festa dei Popoli, venerdì Cisterna celebra la “ricchezza della diversità”. Negozi aperti fino a mezzanotte per la Shopping Night organizzata dall’ASOC

Tutto pronto a Cisterna per la terza edizione della Festa dei Popoli, manifestazione interculturale che celebra la ricchezza della diversità.

Domani (venerdì 30 giugno) a partire dalle 17 e fino alle 23, tra Palazzo Caetani e Piazza XIX Marzo si alterneranno iniziative di diverso genere tutte finalizzate alla promozione dell’integrazione sociale tra cittadini di nazionalità e culture diverse. 

Si parte alle 17 in Sala Zuccari con il convegno dal titolo “Accoglienza e integrazione per una responsabilità condivisa” al quale interverranno, oltre ai rappresentanti dell’amministrazione comunale di Cisterna, anche il vicario della Prefettura di Latina, Vincenzo Scipione, il vicario generale della diocesi pontina, monsignor Mario Sbariggia ed una rosa di esperti relatori che operano nei settori dell’accoglienza e della mediazione culturale sul nostro territorio.  

Dalle 18:30 si accenderà la festa in piazza con degustazioni di cibi tradizionali locali e delle comunità straniere residenti a Cisterna, performance artistiche straniere e cisternesi seguite da tante altre iniziative a cura delle associazioni che si sono messe a disposizione per animare una serata di gioia e condivisione.

Nel frattempo, all’interno della Sala della mimosa di Palazzo Caetani, sarà aperta al pubblico la mostra “Africa nel cuore” a cura dell’associazione Oltre i Confini Onlus.

Domani sarà anche la serata della Shopping Night, iniziativa promossa dall’ASOC che prevede l’apertura prolungata delle attività commerciali del Centro fino a mezzanotte.

Cisterna di Latina, 29 giugno 2017 

Prostitution: The Oldest Profession in the World

When it comes to sex trafficking, there is a lot of tension among abolitionists over the topic of prostitution. On the extreme ends, some see all prostitution as a form of trafficking while others make a clear distinction between a person who is a prostitute and someone who is a victim of trafficking. There is, of course, a lot of grey area in between. I bring this up though because today I'm feeling a little frustrated with people who make statements such as, "Prostitution is the oldest profession" or "It's been around for centuries," - as if that somehow proves a point or justifies anything in the prostitution vs. trafficking debate (or, the more common debate over whether prostitution should be legalized). I hate it when people point this out - as if it somehow legitimates anything. Just because something has been around for a long time, doesn't mean it's a good thing.

It's hard to say that women 2000+ years ago chose prostitution of their own free will - more likely, they chose it because it was the only option. It was certainly not some grand statement of female empowerment - rather it was a reaction to the social restrictions placed on women at the time. (Now, some might point to various societies where sex was not as taboo or wrapped up in morality as we see it today, and to them I say that we are talking about commercial transactions for sex - and that if someone can point out a society where prostitution was just as valid a decision as any other business endeavor, and garnered just as much respect and inclusion in society without any opportunity costs (such as marriage) that other business endeavors did not have - I'm willing to listen). ANYWAY - fast forward 2000 years and I wonder how much of this has changed - how much of the decision to become a sex worker today is an enthusiastic embracement of one's own sexuality and the desire to express it in a particular manner, and how much of the decisions is a product of circumstances.

In the present day tension, the idea that someone might choose or even be forced to become a sex worker because of certain circumstances is often overlooked. Now, it is true that, at least from a federal law perspective there has to be some sort of force, fraud, or coercion involved for a commercial transaction involving sex to be considered trafficking. What isn't so clear is what those three words mean. For many, there seems to be this idea that they refer to actions of violence - the woman was chained to the bed, or a gun was held to her head, or she was beaten until she finally submitted. Others consider a definition that afford a little more breadth, so that things like deliberate/blatant psychological coercion or manipulation will qualify as trafficking. Absent some egregious factor such as specific and/or severe physical, sexual, or psychological abuse (from a pimp or from her past) though, many people assume that a woman who is a sex worker is doing it of her own volition - she wants to be there, it was her choice, etc. I think though, that other circumstances play an important role in the idea of consent and that there is room in the idea of force, fraud, or coercion for a different interpretation of consent - one that considers background circumstances that may 'force' a woman into prostitution.

Consent in my mind means active and enthusiastic yes. This can include a woman who chooses, of her own accord, to engage in sexual acts for money. I do not deny that some women will and do choose, of their own volition, without any sort of past hardship or lack of opportunity, to become a sex worker - BUT I think the number of women who fit into this category is very, very small. I think that a large number of women who become sex workers are pushed to that decision by other factors in their life, and when you start adding those factors in, the line between consent and force, fraud, or coercion becomes blurry. What about the woman who did not have the opportunity for an education that would provide her with job skills? What about the woman who has kids to take care of but can't find a job that pays enough? What about the woman who grew up in foster care, or in a family environment surrounded by drug abuse, or the one who is just down on her luck? Are these women victims of trafficking, or are they consenting sex workers?

I am not in any way making a moral judgment here. For your purposes and mine, I have no opinion on the morality of sex workers. What I am trying to do is reframe the debate so people stop seeing it as a black and white, good vs bad issue. I'm asking people to look a little deeper, beyond the question of whether a woman should be allowed to choose to sell her body, beyond the question of whether the government has any right to outlaw a person's rights over their own body, and look beyond the apparent consenting adult ethos. Ask yourself what consent really means, and again, are these women victims of trafficking, or are they consenting sex workers?

My answer? I don't know. Maybe this type of circumstance-created sex work doesn't rise to the level of trafficking, but at the same time I hardly think you can view it as enthusiastic consent. I tend to think that many women who are sex workers would not be in that profession if they were given the opportunity for something else (and the idea of a different set of opportunities can go the whole way back to childhood). I also tend to think that the image we see of sex workers - on TV, on news shows that discuss the topic, etc - is a much more glamorous version of what most sex workers experience. I get a sense that the women who go on to news programs to advocate for sex workers (sometimes actual workers, sometimes not) are the exceptions to the rule - maybe even the ones that did have the opportunities others miss. (NB: that was a huge blanket statement there. Please excuse for the sake of the argument).

Now, for a full disclosure that hopefully won't distract from my above point - I don't know what I think about prostitution being legalized either. Some days I favor the idea of legalizing it - because a woman should be able to decide what she does with her body, and even if the only reason she is involved is due to circumstances that forced her there (money issues for example), far be it from me to limit the ways she has to escape those circumstances, or force her into a worse situation because that avenue of income is unavailable. Now, on those days I still favor prosecuting those who create the demand for such services to the maximum possible under the law. I have no time for people who pay for sex - I think it is wrong and pathetic and there is no way you will ever convince me that the payor is not exploiting the payee, even if the payee is a consenting adult. This is one of the few things I will express a judgment on with no reservations or qualifications whatsoever (although the law student in me still feels the need to reserve the right to change that statement, should anyone make a valid argument that convinces me I am wrong). For more on the idea of legalizing prostitution but outlawing the demand side, see Jennifer's post!

Oh - and also - take a moment to think about the phrase, "Prostitution is the oldest profession in history" before you use it to justify present day prostitution. Whether you are for or against the legalization, basing your argument on the reality of a few thousand years ago is just silly.
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Guantanamo Libya. The new Italian border police

Guantanamo Libya. The new Italian border police TRIPOLI - The iron door is closed. From the small loophole I see the faces of two African guys and one Egyptian. I can't stand the acrid smell coming from the holding cells. I ask them to move. Now I can see the whole room, three meters per eight. There are some thirty people inside. Piled one over the other. There are no beds, people sleep on the ground on some dirty foam mattresses. Behind, on the walls, somebody has written Guantanamo. But we are not in the U.S. base. We are in Zlitan, in Libya. And the detainees they are not suspected terrorists, but immigrants arrested south of Lampedusa. People press behind the door. They have not been receiving any visits since they were arrested. Someone raises the voice: "Help us!" A young man put the hand out of the loophole and give me a piece of cardboard. There is written a telephone number, by pen. The prefix is that of Gambia. I put it in my pocket, hiding from the police. His name is Outhman. He asks me to tell his mother he is still alive. He has been locked in this prison for the last five months. Fabrice instead spent here nine months. Both of them were arrested during police raids in the immigrants neighbourhoods in Tripoli. Since several years actually, Libya is committed to patrol the European southern border. With any means. In 2003 Italy signed an agreement with Gaddafi and sent oversea motorboats, cars and body-bags... funding detention centres and deportation flights. Since then, tens of thousands of immigrants and refugees every year are arrested in Libya and held in such inhuman conditions. "People are suffering here! The food is bad, and the water is dirty. We are sick and there are pregnant women." Gift is 29 years old. She is from Nigeria. She was arrested three months ago, while she was walking with her husband on the street. They left two children in Tripoli, she said. She is not allowed to call them. Her husband has been repatriated the previous week. She is still here, alone, wearing the same clothes she had when she was taken prisoner. Before, she has been living in Libya for three years, working as a hairdresser, and she didn't have any idea to cross the sea towards Italy, as many of the other immigrants who are here. It is not the case of Y. Because he really dreamed about Europe. He is Eritrean and he deserted the army in order to seek for political asylum in Europe. He was apprehended in the sea. By the Libyans police. And locked here in Zlitan. Before entering in the office of the director – Ahmed Salim -, a policeman whispers something to him. When we ask him about the conditions of the prison, he answers with a trembling voice: "Everything is good." He is frightened. He knows that if he says something wrong he will be beaten. The director smiles in front of him and grants us he will not be deported. Within the next week he will be transferred to the detention centre of Misratah, 210 km east of Tripoli, where all the Eritreans refugees are concentrated. In the region of Zlitan, there are three other detention centres for immigrants, in Khums, Garabulli and Bin Ulid. They are smaller and detainees kept there are normally moved to the camp of Zlitan, which can hold up to 325 people. But how many detention centres are there in Libya? According to the evidences we collected in the last years, they are at least 28, mostly concentrated along the coast. There are three kinds of centres. There are concentration camps, like those of Sebha, Zlitan, Zawiyah, Kufrah and Misratah, where migrants and refugees are concentrated waiting for their deportation. Then there are smaller facilities, such as Qatrun, Brak, Shat, Ghat, Khums ... where aliens are held for a shorter period of time before being sent to the bigger camps. And then there are the prisons: Jadida, Fellah, Twaisha, Ain Zarah ... Common prisons I mean, with entire branches dedicated to undocumented foreigners. The most known one was the prison of Fellah, in Tripoli, but it was recently demolished to construct a new building, in line with the restyling of the entire city. Its function was replaced by Twaisha, the prison near the airport. Koubros managed to escape from Twaisha only few weeks ago. He is Eritrean, 27 years old. He used to live in Sudan, but after an Eritrean friend was deported from Khartoum, he suddenly decided to leave towards a safer place in Europe. He went out from Twaisha walking with crutches. He says he was seriously beaten by a drunk policeman who asked him money. Hopefully his Eritreans cell mates collect some money to let him free. To bribe a prison guard $ 300 is enough. I met him in front of the church of San Francesco, in Tripoli. Like every Friday, about fifty African migrants are waiting for the opening of Caritas. Tadrous is one of them. He was released last October from the prison of Surman. He is one of the few refugees having been judged by a court. His story interests me. It was on June 2008. They took the sea from Zuwarah, in 90 people. But after a few hours they decided to come back, because of the stormy sea, and they were arrested. The judge sentenced them to 5 months of detention, with the charge of illegal emigration. I ask him if he was given a lawyer. He simply smiles shaking the head. The answer is no. Nothing strange, says the lawyer Abdussalam Edgaimish. Libyan law does not provide free legal aid for crimes punishable by less than three years. Edgaimish is the director of the Bar of Tripoli. He welcomes us in his office, in the First September road. He explains us that the practice of arrest and detention of immigrants have nor legal basis neither a validation from the court. Any Libyan citizen, according to the law, could not be deprived of liberty without a warrant of arrest. But for foreigners it is not the same. Police raids are usual. The practice is that of house-to-house raids in the suburbs of Tripoli. "Migrants are victims of a conspiracy between the two shores of the Mediterranean. Europe sees only a security problem, but nobody wants to talk about their rights. " Jumaa Atigha is also a lawyer of Tripoli, graduated in Rome in 1983. Since 1999, he chaired the Organization for the Human Rights of the Foundation led by the firstborn of Gaddafi, Saif al Islam. In 2007 he resigned. During his presidency he led a national campaign, making the Government release 1,000 political prisoners. He describes a country involved in a rapid change, but still far from an ideal situation with respect to individual and political freedom. Atigha knows well the conditions of detention in Libya. From 1991 to 1998 he has been jailed without trial, as a political prisoner. He tells us that torture is a common practice among the Libyan policemen. "The lack of awareness means that policemen think to serve justice, while they are torturing people" Mustafa O. Attir think the same. He is professor of sociology in the Tripoli University of El Fatah. "It is not simply a problem of racism. Libyans are kind with foreigners. It is a matter of police." Attir knows what he says. He visited Libyan prisons as a researcher in 1972, 1984 and 1986. Police officers have no education – he tells us - and are instead educated to the concept of punishment. Suddenly his words make me rethink to the Ghanaian hairdressers in the medina, the Chadian tailors, the Sudanese shops, the Egyptians waiters, the Moroccan ladies in the cafeterias, and the Africans cleaning the roads every night. While Eritreans refugees are hiding themselves in the suburbs of Gurji and Krimia, thousands of African immigrants live and work here, maybe exploited, but with a relative peace. Certainly for Sudaneses and Chadians people, everything is easier. They speak Arabic and they are Muslims. They have been living in Libya for tens of years and therefore they are quite tolerated. The same for Egyptians and Moroccans. Instead is different for Eritreans and Ethiopians. They are here only for a transit to Europe. Often they do not speak Arabic. Often they are Christians. And their grandparents fought against Libyans with the Italian colonial troops. And as they travel with the money for the crossing in the pocket, they are often stolen even in the street. For the Nigerians, and more generally for the Anglophone sub-Saharan, is different. If they are directed to Europe or not, it is not important. Their integration in the Libyan society clashes systematically with the racist stereotypes against Nigerians, linked to the crimes of some Nigerian criminal networks. They are accused of smuggling drugs and alcohol, exploiting prostitution, bringing the Hiv virus and perpetrating robbery and murders. During 2007, professor Attir organized three conferences on the subject of immigration in the Arab countries. In Libya he is one of the greater experts. And he is ready to deny the figures circulating in Europe. "Two million immigrants in Libya are waiting to leave to Italy? It is not true." Actually there is no statistic at all. The Libyan population is five and a half million people. Foreigners can not reasonably be more than one million, including Arab immigrants. Most of them have never thought to cross the sea. And Libya need them, because its economy is growing up, and the country is underpopulated and its citizens don't want any more to do heavy and cheap labours. Attir is aware of the pressures that Europe is doing on Libya. But he also knows that "there is no way" to stop the transit of migrants in the sea. Libya has about 1,800 km of coastline, largely uninhabited. Colonel Khaled Musa, head of anti-immigration patrols in Zuwarah, don't really think that the six patrol boats promised by Italy will solve the problem. For sure they will help to control the coast between the Tunisian border, Ras Jdayr, and Sabratah. But it is only around 100 km. The 6% of the Libyan coast. And the departures have already moved on the coasts east of Tripoli, between Khums and Zlitan, more than 200 km from Zuwarah. The department of immigration of Zuwarah was created in 2005. The number of migrants arrested fell from 5,963 in 2005 to 1,132 in 2007. For the head of the investigations department, Sala el Ahrali, the figures show the success of the repressive measures. Many smugglers have been arrested, that is why the departures decreased. And the coast is patrolled every night, by cars. Every ten kilometres there is a police tent, on the beach. But only along 50 kilometres from the Tunisian border, from Farwah, to Mellitah, near the gas treatment plant owned the Italian Eni and the Libya's National Oil Company. It goes from Mellitah to Gela, in Sicily. Greenstream, this is its name, is the longest underwater pipeline in the Mediterranean. Ironically, it runs along the same route which leads thousands of migrants to Lampedusa. On the surface of the sea, EU sends its military forces to stop the transRit of human beings. While at the bottom of the sea, eight billions cubic meters of gas annually pass through the 520 km of pipes, among the bones of thousands of victims of migration. An image that perfectly summarizes the relationship of the last five years between Rome and Tripoli, leaded under the slogan "more oil, less immigrants". Read also: Libya: inside the immigrants detention centre of Misratah Border Sahara: the detention centres in the Libyan desert Download the Fortress Europe 2007 Report: Escape from Tripoli

Speciale Libia: cosa accadrà ai 227 emigranti respinti a Tripoli?

Speciale Libia: cosa accadrà ai 227 emigranti respinti a Tripoli? PISTOIA, 7 maggio 2009 - Né a Malta, né a Lampedusa. Sono stati riportati in Libia i 227 emigranti e rifugiati (cittadini di Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Costa d'Avorio, Somalia e Mali) – tra cui 40 donne, tre delle quali incinte - soccorsi ieri a circa 35 miglia a sud est di Lampedusa dalle autorità italiane. Dopo una giornata di infruttuose trattative con il governo maltese sulla responsabilità dei soccorsi, l"Italia è riuscita a strappare a Tripoli il consenso per la riammissione in Libia dei naufraghi. Nessuno dei passeggeri è stato identificato, nessuno degli eventuali minori non accompagnati è stato tutelato, nessun rifugiato è stato messo nelle condizioni di chiedere asilo politico, e nessun medico ha verificato le condizioni di salute dei naufraghi. Prassi che sulla terra ferma sono obblighi previsti dalla legge. Ma non in mare aperto, fuori dalle frontiere e dallo stato di diritto. Maroni ha rivendicato quanto accaduto come "un risultato storico" e annunciato che sarà la prassi della prossima stagione di sbarchi. Maroni e l'Italia hanno la memoria corta. "Le espulsioni collettive di migranti dall'Italia alla Libia costituiscono una violazione del principio di non refoulement. Le autorità italiane non hanno rispettato i loro obblighi internazionali". Era il 14 aprile del 2005 e il Parlamento Europeo adottava una risoluzione di condanna contro le deportazioni collettive con cui il Governo italiano aveva espulso in Libia 1.500 persone intercettate al largo di Lampedusa tra l'ottobre 2004 e il marzo 2005. "Il parlamento europeo - continuava la risoluzione su Lampedusa P6_TA(2005)0138 - è profondamente preoccupato sul destino di centinaia di richiedenti asilo respinti in Libia, dal momento che questo paese non ha firmato la Convenzione di Ginevra sui rifugiati, non ha un sistema d'asilo, non offre garanzie effettive per i diritti di rifugiati, e pratica arresti arbitrari detenzioni e espulsioni". Un mese dopo, il 10 maggio del 2005, la Corte europea dei diritti umani sospese l'espulsione da Lampedusa di 11 cittadini stranieri sbarcati a marzo e che avevano presentato ricorso. Quattro anni dopo, ciò che ieri era illegale è divenuto regola d'ingaggio dei pattugliamenti di Frontex partiti la settimana scorsa nel Canale di Sicilia. Adesso però le questioni sono due. La prima: che ne sarà del soccorso in mare, quando la priorità non è più la vita dei naufraghi, ma le trattative sul dove portarli? Maroni presenta i 600 salvataggi fatti dalle nostre unità in acque maltesi come un peccato originale. In realtà fanno onore alla nostra Guardia costiera e alla nostra Marina militare. Perchè questa gente non viaggia su navi di crociera. Ma su vecchi legni malmessi. Tutti ricordino che sono quasi 4.000 le vite umane che il mare di Sicilia si è ingoiato negli ultimi dieci anni! Bene, rischiano di morirne altrettanti ora che la nostra Guardia costiera ha ricevuto l'ordine di non intervenire in alto mare, senza autorizzazione del ministero dell'Interno, previa consultazione-scontro con Malta. Ieri è andata bene perché il mare era calmo. Ma col mare in tempesta e onde altre quattro metri, bastano pochi minuti di ritardo a decidere la morte di centinaia di persone. La seconda questione è: che cosa succederà ai migranti respinti in Libia? Sappiamo già che sono stati arrestati e detenuti nel carcere di Tuaisha, a Tripoli, fatta eccezione per una donna ricoverata in ospedale dopo sei giorni trascorsi in mare. Adesso, a seconda delle nazionalità, alcuni saranno rimpatriati in pochi giorni (ad esempio verso Tunisia e Egitto), altri saranno tenuti a marcire nelle carceri libiche per mesi, o per anni. In che condizioni? Lo scriviamo da tre anni. Per l'ennesima volta vi riproponiamo i nostri esclusivi reportage. Nella speranza che la stampa ne faccia buon uso, anziché continuare a leccare le scarpe ai ministri. I nostri reportage Guantanamo Libia. I nuovi gendarmi dell'Italia La porta di ferro è chiusa a doppia mandata. Dalla piccola feritoia si affacciano i volti di due ragazzi africani e un di egiziano. L'odore acre che esce dalla cella mi brucia le narici. Chiedo ai tre di spostarsi. La vista si apre su due stanze di tre metri per quattro. Vedo 30 persone. Sul muro hanno scritto Guantanamo. Ma non siamo nella base americana. Siamo a Zlitan, in Libia. E i detenuti non sono presunti terroristi, ma immigrati arrestati a sud di Lampedusa Frontiera Sahara. I campi di detenzione nel deserto libico Stipati come animali, dentro container di ferro. Così gli immigrati arrestati in Libia vengono smistati nei centri di detenzione nel deserto libico, in attesa di essere deportati. Siamo i primi giornalisti autorizzati a vederli. Le condizioni dei centri sono inumane. I funzionari italiani e europei lo sanno bene, visto che li hanno visitati. Ma si astengono da ogni critica, alla vigilia dell'avvio dei pattugliamenti congiunti Reportage dalla Libia: siamo entrati a Misratah Di notte, quando cessano il vociare dei prigionieri e gli strilli della polizia, dal cortile del carcere si sente il rumore del mare. Sono le onde del Mediterraneo, che schiumano sulla spiaggia, a un centinaio di metri dal muro di cinta del campo di detenzione. Siamo a Misratah, 210 km a est di Tripoli, in Libia. E i detenuti sono 600 richiedenti asilo politico eritrei, arrestati al largo di Lampedusa o nei quartieri degli immigrati a Tripoli E poi le nostre inchieste: Libia: arrestati i superstiti del naufragio, sono a Tuaisha "Così le navi di Frontex ci respinsero in Libia" Dall'Unione europea 20 milioni alla Libia contro l'immigrazione Libia: ecco le foto dei campi di detenzione La Libia cerca immigrati in Asia, mentre l'Oim pensa ai rimpatri Libia: ecco il testo dell'accordo segreto con l´Italia Italia-Libia: Berlusconi firma l'accordo. Presto i pattugliamenti Italia - Libia: Prodi firma l'accordo per il pattugliamento congiunto Marocco: le testimonianze degli harragas arrestati in Libia Per testimonianze audio potete scaricare questo file Libia: esclusiva intervista con i rifugiati detenuti a Zawiyah

CAVOLFIORI....CAULIFLOWER ..AS A MEASURE

The Nigerian independence anniversary came and went ‘as usual’. This year I promised myself to add more dose to my ‘patriotism pack’, so I made sure I wasn’t at any Refugee identification camp therefore I travelled up Rome to stay near home and feast with my Muslim friends at Ramadan as we wait for the independence, a day after. I was also to attend the ‘STOP RAZZISMO’ demonstration in Rome city on the 4th October, so you can see I had all good reasons to pray not to be called up for any job far from the Eternal city - SPQR- for a week, not minding I needed the money than ever.

The independence was very much on my mind because of the increase dose of patriotism which I am trying out once more, therefore we planned to meet with some of the Nigerian kids that spent two weeks holiday with us in August; I continued with this mini project while some of my colleagues waited for the ‘usual’ annual invitation from the Embassy, ( I know how KINGDOMS function) so I cared less, however, I won the bet with my theories on Kingdoms. They got no invitations this year!!!; Some felt bad because they do not know how Kingdoms function. In my next post I will say more of what I have learnt from the italo_naija lots of this old but new KINGDOM in Rome.

As I drove to a shopping complex on the 30th September ,my new dose of patriotism was somehow pricked by some scene that I never imagined in Italy. Italy where I have seen more that 15.000 Nigerian prostitutes (hustlers they call themselves),where all known and unknown deviant cults in Nigeria are having growing proselytes, Italy with more Nigerian Pentecostal churches than in Nigeria herself, Italy that ever male Nigerian is regarded as a liar, ‘pusher’, trickster or a potential ‘underground junior Mafioso’; Italy also where the Nigeria community is regarded as the most schooled ; a paradox.

We may be everything and can be expected to be getting to other levels but I never had the bad sensation I had when I saw a group of Nigerians (young, handsome, healthy) boys calling on cars at the parking lot of that mall the way some “ALAYE BOYS” do in Lagos. They beckoned on me with the typical vulgar Nigerian hiss you only hear in Lagos, (the sort some old Fulanis use to recall errant cattle to the flock) with fake accompanying bowings and genuflections still typical of what you see among Eko ruffians and in some other regions of Nigeria. All these for an exchange of some coins or to return your trolley for the coin inside it. This was not a bad thing per se compared to other comportments of Nigerians here , I just couldn’t contain the exportation of this way of life which I suppose we can do without here. I was particularly angered because they were very nice looking youths …Nigerian future and hope…?

They woke me up from my sleep, infringed my dream and the little dose of patriotism I was administering to my ‘patriotism pack’ throughout this period.

They rushed on me and the following conversation ensued :
Boy Ciao
Me . how no?
Boy. You speak English?
Boy. You be Naija?
Me . before nko?
Boy . haaa omo naija miiii
Me you?
Boy. I be Yoruba
Boy I be igbo
Boy I be edo
Boy I be urobo
Boy I be edo
Me, OK ,me I be igbo.. Enugu state ..wawa man.
Boys laughs…. hahaha
Boy . I think don see you before . You be police ?
Me. Nooooo.
Boy. But I saw you working with the immigration police at the station?
Boy. Even me I remember I don see you the time they rescue us from water from Libya come Italy for Sicilian sea side You enter military vehicle that day.
Me. Yes na me . Every person wey dey work with police no be police. Police dey under ministry of Internal affair and no be only them dey there, and other international agencies handle refugee matters.
Boys. Ok bros we for say oooo!! Haa police people no be good people oo.
Me. But na them rescue you guys .
Boys. That one be true sha

A lot of their problems were discussed before I went to do my shopping. They were seven but two never cared to come close , they were busy hawking or begging for money which they exchanged with stockings, napkins etc.
When I came out two gently came to help me with my bags. One of them saw in the bag some cavolfiori ..(cauliflower). And this sparked another discussion on cross-cultural nutrition /food .
Boy. Ahh Oga you dey chop this thing?
Me . yes my brother you no like am?
Boy. Noooo. God no gree. That thing sabi smell oo. I no go even enter house wey them cook am.
Me. Na the same story. I had the same story when I came newly., now I even pay to eat it in the restaurant .
Boy. You mean you use your sweated money to order and eat this?
Me . yes. no be the same as to come buy am here and cook.
Boy. Bros na him be se you don stay too much for this oyinbo country , you don become one of them oo, no go home remain youooo.

Sincerely I couldn’t contain my laughter. I gave them my card and some addresses for assistance and left.
Meeting these 5 Nigerian (Libyan boys- name for those entering through the desert and sea) really deflected and altered my dreams of Nigeria and that my new dose of patriotism, but I must admit it was fun talking with them. Nigerians can be fun and sincere in telling you their mind if you are able to relax them quick in a communication.
Lets continue the dream.

"AUGUST2008 DEATH ROLL-CALL"

Immigrants dead at the frontiers of Europe

According to the following press review at leat 12,907 people have died since 1988 along the european frontiers. Among them 4,892 were missing in the sea. 9,114 migrants died in the Mediterranean sea, and through the Atlantic Ocean towards Spain, and 1.609 lost their life trying to cross Sahara desert in order to reach Europe [read more...] [1988-2007 press review]

AUGUST 2008 - More landings, more victims. At least 270 migrants and refugees died at the EU gates the last month. It is the worst bulletin since the beginning of 2008: 179 of them between Libya, Malta and Italy. Victims also between Algeria and Sardinia (14), in Spain (45), Iran (30), Turkey (1) and along the Egyptian border with Israel (1). Meanwhile, the journey of Fortress Europe across the Mediterranean continues. After the reportage from Greece, Israel and Turkey we dedicate this monthly report to the worrying and unknown situation of undocumented migrants in Cyprus [...] [Archive]

12/09/08	Italy	At Brindisi one Afghan 16 years old were found dead inside a truck on the Ionian Quuen ferry coming from the Greek port of Igoumenitsa	Ansa
10/09/08	Antigua	The skeleton of 8 African migrants were found on a 12 meter wood craft going adrift about 7 miles off Falmouth Harbor. Several cell phones and a Malian passport were found, leading to suspect the travelers were sailing to Canary islands	Associated Press
09/09/08	Malta	A woman died moments before a German rescue helicopter reached a boat 60 miles off Malta to airlift her to Mater Dei hospital	Times of Malta
09/09/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead 2 migrants at the Israeli border, bringing to 22 the number of migrants killed at the frontier this year	Reuters
08/09/08	Spain	One migrant have died in the hospital Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, in Gomera, after his arrival in the Canary islands	El Pais
05/09/08	Algeria	One body found at Oued Saboun, near Skikda, drowned on the way to Sardinia	Quotidien d'Oran
03/09/08	Malta	The tanker Johann Schulte rescued 85 shipwrecked migrants on a dinghy 97 miles south of Malta. They claimed to have lost 5 people	Times of Malta
04/09/08	Spain	The bodies of 14 migrants who died from hypothermia were found on a boat intercepted 5 miles from Canary islands. The survivors said they had been adrift for 12 days	El Pais
30/08/08	Algeria	14 migrants hailing from Skikda and Annaba provinces in eastern Algeria drowned in the open sea between Algeria and Sardinia after their boat overthrew	El Khabar
28/08/08	Tunisia	5 men drowned after their boat sank near the island of Zembra, off Sidi Da'ud	Tunisa Watch
28/08/08	Western Sahara	Moroccan authorities intercepted a migrants boat with 51 passengers on board. Among them, the bodies of 6 people died during the travel	Le Monde
27/08/08	Malta	70 migrants reported to be missing 55 miles south of Malta, after a large rubber dinghy taking them to Europe capsized. The eight survivors were rescued by the Maltese fishing boat Madonna di Pompei. Three corpses were discovered by a German helicopter of the Frontex patrolling	Reuters
26/08/08	Spain	A cargo ship rescued 25 migrants from a sinking boat off Almeria, but survivors said up to 35 others died as the boat drifted for three days	AP
24/08/08	Malta	77 migrants rescued from a drifting dinghy by the merchant vessel Stadt Goslar, 53 miles south of Malta. One of them said 27 people drowned two days before, after their boat capsized off Libya	Ansa
21/08/08	Iran	30 Afghans were killed and 83 injured when a truck overturned in southern Iran province of Fars, near the village of Khiareh	AFP
19/08/08	Egitto	Egypt police killed a Sudanese migrant at Israel border. Since the beginning of 2008, bringing to 20 the number of Africans killed at the border so far this year	Reuters
19/08/08	Turkey	A Somali national drowned off Didimi after a migrants boat capsized	Reuters
12/08/08	Italy	According to a group of migrants landed in Ognina, near Siracusa, a man and a woman died during the crossing of the Strait of Sicily and their bodies were left in the sea	Ansa
05/08/08	Spain	The body of a migrant washed ashore at Aguadú, in Melilla	Diario Sur
04/08/08	Libya	75 Somali have been missed after the two tiny boats they were on board sank off the Libyan coasts	Mareeg
04/08/08	Spain	The corpse of a migrant was found in the sea of Rincón en las Palmas, on the island of Gran Canaria	Europa Press
02/08/08	Spain	The body of a migrant was found in the sea of Calahonda, in Motril, near Granada	Ideal
02/08/08	Spain	One man was reported to be missing after a boat of migrants landed in Cuevas del Almanzora, near Almeria	El Pais
31/07/08	Malta	The bodies of two women were recovered 79 miles off Malta, after a sinking migrants boat was rescued by the tug boat Vittorin and the merchant ship Northumberland. One of them was pregnant	Times of Malta
31/07/08	Turkey	The bodies of 13 migrants, mainly from Pakistan and Myanmar, were found dump in Istanbul's Küçükçekmece district. They were part of a group of 140 people transported inside a container hauled by a truck from the southeastern province of Van to Istanbul	Turkish Daily News
29/07/08	Algeria	According to the survivors, 38 people were reported to be missing between Algeria and Sardinia, after the two boats carrying them capsized in a stormy sea	Fortress Europe
29/07/08	Libya	7 people were missing after a migrants boat sank 150 miles south est off Lampedusa. The survivors were rescued by the Italian fishing boats Aries and Victoria	Repubblica
27/07/08	Italy	Two children, two and four years old, died crossing the Strait of Sicily. Their bodies were left in the sea	Corriere
25/07/08	Spain	One dead man among the passengers landed on the Canary islands, in Alajeró	El Pais
23/07/08	Spain	The corpse of a four years old child was found along Algarrobo coasts, near Malaga	El Pais
23/07/08	France	An Eritrean refugee was killed along the A26 highway near Saint Hilaire Cottes, close to Pas de Calais, from where he was trying to reach England	France Presse
23/07/08	France	6 people died and several ones were reported to be missing after a boat sank off the French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean	Le Monde
21/07/08	Italy	A 25 meters long empty boat, going adrift 27 miles off Porto Palo, in Sicily, was reported to be missing. It was supposed to have carried migrants to Sicily	Ansa
20/07/08	Egypt	The Egyptian police shot dead one Sudanese man along the Israeli border. Since the beginning of 2008, at least 17 people have been killed along the Sinai frontier	Reuters
18/07/08	Malta	One corpse found off the island	Times of Malta
16/07/08	Malta	Wreckage found 28 miles west off Malta. It could be the flotsam of a migrants boat reported to be missing in the past days	Times of Malta
15/07/08	France	A man died under a truck on the A16 highway near Transmarck, close to Calais, from where he was trying to reach England	France Presse
14/07/08	Italy	Three people died and 30 were reported to be missing after their boat capsized 75 miles south est of Lampedusa, during the rescue operations	Repubblica
13/07/08	Spain	Two survivors of the boat rescued on July 11 off Canary have died in the hospital where they were in critical conditions. Meanwhile the survived passengers said they threw in the sea the bodies of 11 people died during the days spent adrift without water	Gara
12/07/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead at the Israel border Ahmed Salim Oweid, an Egyptian bedouin man who was helping 30 African migrants reach the Jewish state	Reuters
11/07/08	Spain	The bodies of 4 died people were found on a boat rescued off Gomera, in the Canary islands. The migrants spent several days adrift without water	El Pais
10/07/08	Malta	Three women, one of them pregnant, drowned after their boat capsized off Malta	Times of Malta
09/07/08	Spain	The Guardia Civil rescued a boat adrift 27 miles south of Punta Sabinal, on the west of Almeria. Passengers told 14 people have died after 5 days on the sea, including 9 babies. Another woman had died before they arrived in the port. Four people have been hospitalized in serious condition	El Pais
07/07/08	Spain	14 migrants lost off Motril coast after their boat capsized during the rescue operations 50 miles off Motril, near Granada. Among the victims 4 women and one baby	El Pais
06/07/08	Libya	15 Somalis died of thirst in the Libyan desert near the border with Sudan after their vehicle got flawed	Tripoli Post
04/07/08	Italy	An Iraqi was found dead on a Greek ferry in the port of Venice under the truck where he was travelling hidden. He is the third victim in the last two weeks in the port	Reuters
30/06/08	Malta	A body was found off Zonqor Point south of the island	Ansa
28/06/08	Italy	The body of a second Iraqi was found on a truck on a ferry left from Greece, in the port of Venice	Gazzettino
28/06/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot and killed two African migrants, including a seven-year-old Sudanese girl, as they tried to cross the border into Israel	Reuters
26/06/08	Malta	Shipwreck 32 miles south off Malta, 3 people died	Sky
22/06/08	Italy	Stowaway found dead on a container in the port of Venice coming from Greece	Repubblica
21/06/08	Algeria	The corpse of a migrant was found on the coast of Château Vert, near Skikda, close to Annaba. He died trying to reach Sardinia	El Watan
20/06/08	Spain	4 migrants arrived in Canary islands three days ago have died in La Candelaria and University hospital	Noticias de Navarra
19/06/08	Malta	According to Antonio Sardo, the commandant of the Italian fishing boat Gambero, one of the rescued women give birth to a dead baby during the travel by sea	Il Tempo
19/06/08	Malta	The Italian fishing boat Gambero rescued again 25 shipwrecked migrants 52 miles south of Malta. One missing	Repubblica
19/06/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead an African man on Thursday as he tried to slip across the desert border into Israel, bringing to 14 the number of migrants killed at the border this year	Reuters
17/06/08	Algeria	Ripescato un cadavere in avanzato stato di decomposizione 10 miglia al largo di Ras El Hamra, sulla rotta tra Annaba e la Sardegna	El Watan
15/06/08	Malta	28 Somali migrants has been rescued by the Italian trawler Gambero 55 miles off Malta but a further six, including some children, have been reported missing	Repubblica
14/06/08	Malta	A corpse in an advanced state of decomposition was retrieved in Marsaxlokk	Times of Malta
12/06/08	Turkey	A Somali man named Adam Terry died of a gunshot wound during a riot at Kırklareli in a detention centre for migrants near the Bulgarian and Greek border	Anatolie
11/06/08	Malta	An Italian coastguard vessel recovered a body 54 miles south off Malta	Ansa
10/06/08	Turkey	In Dogubayazit town of eastern province of Van, a bus carrying 20 migrants overturned and 2 peole died	Haber
07/06/08	Libya	At least 40 people died and 100 were reported to be missing after their boat sank off Zuwarah on the way to Italy	Repubblica
07/06/08	Italy	A second body was found on the island of Linosa. Another body was recovered from the sea, 2 miles south of Lampedusa	Ansa
06/06/08	Italy	A body was found along the coast of the island of Linosa	Ansa
06/06/08	Libya	Shipwreck off Libyan coasts. The Italian authorities recovered 13 bodies. Three of the corpses were in an advanced state of decomposition and might be died in another unknown shipwreck	Repubblica
02/06/08	Italy	The body of a woman was recovered 36 miles off Agrigento. It is the eighth corpse found off Sicily in the last three days	Ansa
02/06/08	Italy	A woman lifeless body was found on the beach of Maluk, on the island of Lampedusa	Adnkronos
01/06/08	Italy	One body was found 300 meters from Punta Sottile, in Lampedusa. Another lifeless body was previously recovered 14 miles off the coast, while on the night of Friday another body was found off Lampedusa	Adnkronos
31/05/08	Italy	A man's corpse was found on mile on the est ofLampedusa	Ansa
29/05/08	Italy	The corpse of a man was found along the beach of Castelvetrano (Trapani) close to the river Belice	Ansa
28/05/08	Cyprus	One man was killed as he tried to escape an immigration swoop by running across a motorway and was hit by a car	Turkish Daily News
28/05/08	United Kingdom	The bodies of two stowaways were found in the hold of a cargo ship at Ayr harbour. The vessel left Sfax, in Tunisia, 12 days ago	Guardian
26/05/08	Malta	The Italian fishing trawler Pegaso has rescued 13 migrants but another 5 are believed to have drowned when their boat capsized in rough seas some 85 miles south east of Malta	Times of Malta
26/05/08	Spain	2 dead people found among 68 migrants picked up from a boat one mile off Gran Canaria. Another migrant have died after he had been transfered to a hospital in critical conditions	Abc
24/05/08	Malta	A search for another boat in distress reportedly carrying 28 illegal immigrants about 70 miles off Malta over the past three days proved unsuccessful	Times of Malta
23/05/08	Italy	The body of a drowned migrant were recovered off Pozzalo, Ragusa, in Sicily	Adnkronos
22/05/08	Algeria	The bodies of two drowned migrants were recovered from the sea close to Cherchell, between Alger and Oran	Quotidien d'Oran
22/05/08	Malta	Another corpse was recovered from the sea 50 miles southwest off Malta. It was the sixth body to be found in Maltese waters over recent days	Times of Malta
20/05/08	Greece	The corpse of a drowned migrant was found near the island of Samos	Yen
16/05/08	Greece	21 people are reported to be missing after their boat was returned to Turkey by the Greek Coast Guards of Samos. According to the only passengers who managed to reach the island, by swimming, they drowned after the boat sank	Reuters
10/05/08	Tunisia	Three bodies were found and 47 were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Teboulba. The survivors were hospitalized in Monastir	Reuters
10/05/08	Tunisia	According to evidences collected by the Ligue tunisienne des droits de l'homme, the number of the victims of the shipwreck, happened on April 24 off Chebba, rises to 37	Ltdh
08/05/08	Malta	Three corpse found floating in the sea close to a cave in Delimara	Times of Malta
06/05/08	Morocco	7 of the 42 survivors of the shipwreck happened on April 28 off Hoceima, died once deported and abandoned along the Algerian border near Oujda	Fortress Europe
06/05/08	Algeria	A migrant body was recovered from the sea in Cap Carbon, near Arzew, on the route to Spain	El Watan
01/05/08	Belgium	Ebenizer Folefack Sontsa, 32 years old, from Camerun, committed suicide in the migrants detention centre of Merksplas. He was kept in an isolation cell after a first attempt of repatriation failed because of the protestS of some passengers of the flight	Le Soir
28/04/08	Morocco	A shipwreck off Al Hoceima on the way to Southern Spain caused the death of 36 people, including 2 women and 4 children	El Pais
28/04/08	Turkey	In the attempt to deport 18 migrants to Iraq, Turkish authorities forced them to swim across a fast flowing river near the Habur (Silopi) official border crossing in Şırnak province. 4 people drowned as a result	Turkish Daily News
25/04/08	Italy	One man drowned during a rescue operation 80 miles south off Lampedusa	Ansa
24/04/08	Tunisia	Tunisian coastguards recovered the corpses of 3 migrants off Chabba, while 20 people went missing when the small boat carrying them to Lampedusa capsized	Reuters
23/04/08	Spain	Three more stowaways could have died on board the "Rosa Delmas" container ship	Canarias 7
21/04/08	Spain	Two stowaways have died on board the "Rosa Delmas" container ship, which reached Canary Island. They were part of 13 people hidden on the ship, four of them were hospitalized	La Provincia
17/04/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead an Eritrean as he tried to slip across the frontier into Israel, bringing to 11 the number of migrants killed at the border this year	Reuters
09/04/08	Algeria	The bodies of 13 drowned migrants were found and 3 people were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Béithioua, close to Oran, on the way to Spain	Algeria Watch
08/04/08	Algeria	The bodies of 8 drowned migrants were found two miles off Cap Carbon, close to Arzew, on the way to Spain	El Khabar
02/04/08	Algeria	According to the Algerian authorities, the bodies of 94 drowned migrants were recovered along the Algerian shores in 2007. Since the beginning of 2008, 13 bodies have already been picked up	Jana
30/03/08	Spain	The body of a drowned migrant were found along the beach of Melilla. It is the second body found along the Beni Enzar beach, another one was recovered on March 22	Diario Sur
30/03/08	Algeria	Left three weeks ago from Mostaganem trying to reach Spain, 3 men from Tiaret are reported to be missing. The bodies of two other victims, from Tiaret and Rahouia, have been repatriated from Spain	Quotidien d'Oran
27/03/08	Egypt	Egyptian security men shot dead two African migrants as they tried to slip across the frontier into Israel	Reuters
27/03/08	W. Sahara	The bodies of 3 men and a woman were recovered near Dakhla, after a shipwreck on the way to Canary. Tens of people could be missing	Assabah
23/03/08	Turkey	The bodies of 6 migrants were found in Tekagac headland of Didim town of western province of Aydin. One of them was identified as a Somali woman, Ayse Abdurrahman	Xinhua
19/03/08	Libya	According to a Tunisian witness living in Metlaoui, who survived to the shipwreck, a boat carrying 380 people sank near Zawiyah on the way to Italy. About 40 people could have be died	Corriere della Sera
18/03/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead a 25-year-old Eritrean woman trying to slip across the border into Israel. At least 8 migrants have been killed in the same way since the start of the year	Reuters
15/03/08	Turkey	A boat carrying illegal migrants capsized in Iskenderun town of southern province of Hatay killing 4	Turkish Press
05/03/08	Spain	The bodies of two dead men were found on a migrants boat landed in Canary, at the port of Los Cristianos on the island of Tenerife	Afp
03/03/08	Algeria	The body of a drowned migrant was recovered from the sea near Béthioua, close to Oran	Le Quotidien d'Oran
01/03/08	Spain	The body of a drowned woman was found at sea at Caños de Meca, near Cádiz	Abc
25/02/08	Egypt	Egyptian police killed an Eritrean woman as she tried to cross Egypt's desert frontier and enter Israel	Reuters
19/02/08	Egypt	Egyptian security forces shot dead a Sudanese man trying to cross into Israel after he ignored orders to stop as he attempted to cross barbed wire near the border town of Rafah, in the north of the Sinai Peninsula	Amnesty
16/02/08	Egypt	Egyptian security forces shot dead an Eritrean woman, Mervat Mer Hatover, after she ignored orders to stop as she was attempting to jump over the barbed wire in the El Kuntilla border region, in south-eastern Sinai Peninsula	Amnesty
13/02/08	Morocco	24 people were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Tarfaya, on way to Canary	Abc
06/02/08	Spain	A migrant died in Ceuta crushed under the wheels of a tour bus under which he was hidden to cross the Strait without being detected	El Pais
03/02/08	Spain	The bodies of 2 drowned migrants were found on the southern Spanish coast. One in La Barrosa, near Chiclana (Cadiz) and the other one in Isleta, near Tarifa	El Pais
01/02/08	Algeria	Six people are reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Annaba on the way to Sardinia	Le Quotidien d'Oran
30/01/08	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead two migrants trying to get over barbed wire dividing Egypt and Israel. The victims are a 22 years old man and a 18 years old woman. Another migrant was shot dead at the beginning of the month	Reuters
30/01/08	Greece	The decomposing body of a man was found on board a passenger ferry sailing from Patras to Venice, in a storerooms where he was hidden to reach Italy	Ekathimerini
26/01/08	Algeria	Body found in La Marsa, near Skikda	Le Quotidien d'Oran
22/01/08	Italy	A 14 years old Afghan died falling from the truck, coming from Greece, under which he was hidden, near Forlì	Romagna Oggi
22/01/08	Spain	2 people drowned after a boat capsized few meters from the seaside in Torre del Puerco, at Conil (Cadiz)	El Pais
22/01/08	Eritrea	Ethiopia says Eritrea forces shot at two Eritrean army deserters trying to flee across the two rivals' disputed border. One of them was killed	Reuters
19/01/08	Mali	Interviewed by Le Monde, mr. Balihar Singh says he saw 8 migrants died trying to cross the desert of Sahara, 14 months ago, in order to reach the Mediterranean coast	Le Monde
15/01/08	Greece	A woman drowned while attempting to cross Evros River, northeastern Greece, along the borders with Turkey, on board a rowboat, falling into the frozen river waters when the boat capsized	Ana
15/01/08	Spain	Another body found in Barbate, in Andalusia. It is the eighth victims of an unknown shipwreck	El Pais
13/01/08	Spain	The bodies of three dead migrants were found on board a boat rescued 90 miles south off Gran Canaria island	El Pais
11/01/08	Italy	A dinghy crossed courses with an Italian fishing boat, 50 miles south off Lampedusa. One migrant dived into the water and managed to reach the fishing boat in order to ask for help, but the craft prevented him from staying on board. Then the captain, Mariano Ruggiero, threw him back into the sea and he drowned	Repubblica
10/01/08	Spain	Another body found in Barbate	Abc
06/01/08	Spain	Discovered near Los Caños in Barbate, the bodies of 6 drowned migrants	El Pais
04/01/08	Western Sahara	The bodies of 4 drowned migrants were found by a fisher boat, off Cap Barbas, 270 km south of Dakhla	Panapress
28/12/07	Spain	The body of a young migrant were found in the port of Ceuta	Abc
31/12/07	Algeria	According to the Algerian authorities, the bodies of 83 drowned migrants were recovered along the coasts of the Country during 2007. They had been 73 in 2006, and 29 in 2005	Le Quotidien d'Oran
28/12/07	Greece	Two boats capsized in the Evros river separating Turkey from Greece, killing one migrant and leaving several missing	Anatolia
26/12/07	Tunisia	2 migrants died and 3 were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off Sfax	As-Sabah
26/12/07	Turkey	The death toll of the 10th December Izmir shipwreck rose to 51, after another body was found washed up on the shore in Cesme	Turkish Daily News
24/12/07	Greece	A fisherman found a body and rescued a migrant off the Aegean island of Lesvos. The survivor said he had been on a boat with another 31 people, reported to be missing	Kathimerini
19/12/07	Turkey	Another body was found off Bodrum, where yesterday a migrants boat sank	Kathimerini
18/12/07	Turkey	7 migrants drowned and one was reported to be missing after a boat trying to reach the Greek island of Kos sank off the coast of Bodrum	Turkish Daily News
12/12/07	Algeria	Migrants boat rescued 30 miles off Cap Falcon by the Algerian LNG vessel "Abbane Ramdane". 3 people found dead	Le Quotidien d'Oran
10/12/07	Turkey	50 migrants drowned and 29 were reported to be missing after their 50-foot boat sank in rough weather late on Saturday off the coast of Seferihisar, a town south of the city of Izmir, heading to the Greek island of Chios	Turkish Daily News
10/12/07	Senegal	Left from the island of Djogué, in Casamance, and heading towards Canary islands, a pirogue with 130 migrants aboard turned back to Yoff Tonghor, in Dakar, after 12 days spent going adrift. Aboard one man were found dead. According to the survivors, 39 people died in the travel and their bodies were abandoned in the sea	Walfadjri
10/12/07	W. Sahara	50 migrants were reported to be drowned after a shipwreck off Dakhla, on the way to Canary islands. 6 bodies were found along the coast	El Pais
10/12/07	Algeria	The body of a drowned migrant were found near Bouzedjar	Le Quotidien d'Oran
09/12/07	Spain	One man were found dead on a pirogue landed in El Hierro island, in Canary	El Pais
06/12/07	Greece	A diabetic person was found dead due to lack of insulin aboard a small cargo ship landed in Kato Zakros in Lasithi on the island of Crete	In
05/12/07	Spain	Three dead migrants found aboard two boats landed in Tenerife, in the Canary islands	El Pais
04/12/07	France	2 people died and 8 were reported to be missing after a collision between a motorboat of the French police and a migrants boat coming from the Comoro islands, off the French island of Mayotte	Le Monde
04/12/07	Algeria	The Dutch vessel Fairepartner rescued migrants going adrift 76 miles off Mostaganem. The body of a drowned man were found at sea, while 11 people were reported to be missing	Le Quotidien d'Oran
01/12/07	Spain	2 men were found dead on a migrants boat rescued off Las Palmas, in Canary islands	El Pais
29/11/07	Algeria	The body of a drowned migrant was washed ashore on a beach in Marsa, 30 km west from Ténès	Le Quotidien d'Oran
16/11/07	Cyprus	A man was shot dead during a police operation to arrest suspected illegal migrants	Turkish Daily News
14/11/07	Algeria	Body found along Draouch coast, close to Ghazaouet	Le Quotidien d'Oran
14/11/07	Morocco	7 migrants died and 30 were reported to be missing after their boat heading to Canary capsized 100 km south of Agadir, near Sidi Ifni	Canarias 7
13/11/07	Gambia	8 migrants drowned and 50 were reported to be missing after a shipwreck off The Gambia, 1.700 km south off Canary	Afrol News
10/11/07	Mauritania	Five migrants died in Nouadhibou hospital, where they had been hospitalised after the La Güera shipwreck of the past week	Abc
10/11/07	Spain	The bodies of two men and a woman were found at Alborán, close to El Ejido, in Andalusia. 9 corpses have already been found along Almeria's coasts since October	Abc
09/11/07	Greece	Migrant shot dead by a border guard after he had illegally crossed into Greece from the Albanian frontier close to Florina	Kathimerini
06/11/07	Mauritania	56 people died from hunger, cold and thirst after three weeks spent adrift off Mauritania coast, as their vessel lost power trying to reach Canary islands. The 101 survivors were rescued at La Güera, close to Western Sahara. They were departed from Ziguinchor, in Senegal	El Pais
06/11/07	Italy	A sixteenth body of the Vendicari shipwreck were found at Cittadella dei Maccheri, close to Siracusa	Adnkronos
02/11/07	Italy	Found the body of the thirteenth victim of the shipwreck of Siracusa	Ansa
31/10/07	Italy	The body of two other migrants drowned near Roccella Jonica, in Calabria, were found. The bodies found are 11 until now	Adnkronos
30/10/07	Italy	Two corpses were found near Marina di Gioiosa Jonica, in Calabria. The bodies found until now are 9, while 20 people are reported to be missing	Agi
28/10/07	Italy	The bodies of 9 drowned migrants were found and 8 were reported to be missing after their boat sank near Siracusa, in Sicily	Repubblica
28/10/07	Italy	The bodies of 7 drowned migrants were found along Calabria coast (in the south of Italy) after their boat, thirty meters long, broke down 200 meters from the coast at Roccella Ionica	Repubblica
25/10/07	Spain	7 dead and 50 missing, as the Spanish trawler "Tiburón III" rescued just one survivor from immigrants boat off Cabo Verde, 300 miles from Senegal	El Pais
22/10/07	Greece	17 would-be migrants reported to be missing since their boat sank amid gale-force winds off Samos	Kathimerini
22/10/07	Senegal	150 migrants were reported to be missing after their boat sank on the way to Canary island, according to their families who celebrated, in Kolda, their collective funeral	Seneweb
18/10/07	Libya	According to a Frontex report , 360 migrants corpses were recovered during 2006 by the Libyan authorities. The report doesn't explain how they died, but probably the majority of them lost the life crossing the desert in order to reach the Mediterranean	Il Manifesto
16/10/07	Tunisia	Three bodies found along Sejnane coast, in the north east of the country	Quotidien d'Oran
16/10/07	Spain	Another body brought up in the nets of "La Pastora" fishing boat off Níjar coast, near Almería	El Mundo
15/10/07	Spain	Died in "La Candelaria" hospital one of the 90 migrants rescued 14 miles south of Tenerife, Canary, the 14th October	El Pais
14/10/07	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead a Sudanese refugee trying to get over the Egypt-Israel border	Ahn
11/10/07	Italy	Body found 5 miles south off Lampedusa	Ansa
09/10/07	Spain	The third body in a week has been brought up in the nets of "La Pastora" fishing boat off Níjar coast, near Almería	El Mundo
01/10/07	Italy	Body sighted 105 miles sout west off Malta	Adnkronos
01/10/07	Turkey	16 people were reported to be drowned after a shipwreck off Balikesir coast	Kuna
26/09/07	Spain	A migrant drowned trying to reach Ceuta by swimming	Europa Press
25/09/07	Algeria	Three bodies found off Ghazaouet, on the way to Spain	Le Quotidien d'Oran
24/09/07	Greece	The bodies of 4 migrants, including a child, were recovered off the islands of Samos and Lesvos	Kathimerini
24/09/07	Turkey	5 people were missing and feared dead after their boat sank off Kusadasi, close to the Greek island of Samos	Kathimerini
23/09/07	Spain	Boat landed Canary islands in Las Vistas seaside, in Tenerife, one dead aboard	El dia
21/09/07	Greece	Migrant smuggler dies in car crash in Thessaloniki fleeing police, nine immigrants in vehicle injured	Kathimerini
18/09/07	Spain	Discovered at Níjar the body of one of the 6 missing passenger of a boat which sank a mile off Cabo de Gata	El Pais
17/09/07	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead an Eritrean along the Israeli border	Reuters
15/09/07	Egypt	8 people died when a boat attempting to bring nearly 90 Egyptians to Italy capsized in Egyptian waters, off Edko, near Al-Iskandariya	Associated Press
14/09/07	Poland	Three children, 6, 10 and 13 years old, froze to death on the mountains over the Ukraina-Poland border, in order to pass by foot the frontier	L'Orient Le Jour
14/09/07	Italy	Body found off Pantelleria island, the survivors told they were throwned into the sea by the captain of the ship	Repubblica
12/09/07	France	4 drowned and 15 reported to be missing after a shipwreck between Anjouan (Comoro islands) and the French island of Mayotte	Jeune Afrique
09/09/07	Spain	Body found at Sacratif, close to Motril	Abc
07/09/07	Spain	Ten migrants bodies found along Agüimes coasts, in Gran Canaria, drowned while landing on the island	El Pais
03/09/07	W. Sahara	4 people died and 28 were reported to be missing after their boat, heading to Canary islands, capsized off Dakhla	Bbc
01/09/07	Italy	One migrant died and 3 were reported to be missing after a boat capsized 15 miles off Portopalo (Siracusa)	Repubblica
30/08/07	Greece	Body found in the sea off the island of Samos	Kathimerini
30/08/07	Malta	Migrants boat capsized after a Greek vessel rescued them 72 miles south off Malta. 25 people reported to be missing, including 4 women	Reuters
30/08/07	Algeria	Algerian authorities found in the first half of 2007 the bodies of 42 dead migrants along their coasts, drowned sailing to Sardinia	Reuters
29/08/07	Italy	Boat rescued off Lampedusa, going adrift for 4 days. The passengers said 2 pregnant women died in the travel and their bodies were left in the sea	Il Messaggero
28/08/07	Italia	Migrants boat save a man floating in the middle of the sea, 50 miles off Lampedusa. He told his boat capsized during a stormy night with a broken engin. All the passengers are reported to be missing	Ansa
25/08/07	Italy	Migrants landed at Cala Pisana, in Lampedusa, told 6 of them died after 8 days adrift. Their bodies were throwned in the sea	Ansa
23/08/07	Algeria	Migrant body found at Mers El-Hadjadj, Arzew	Le Quotidien d'Oran
23/08/07	Greece	The crew of a passing boat pulled a man out of the sea off Hios island and he told them that his vessel had sunk with 14 migrants aboard	Kathimerini
23/08/07	Italy	Sicilian fishermen rescue a man in the open sea, 70 miles south off Lampedusa. He's the only survivor of a shipwreck which caused the death of 45 migrants	Adnkronos
22/08/07	Italy	The bodies of 6 drowned migrants were found 60 miles off Lampedusa island	Corriere della Sera
19/08/07	Spain	13 migrants died on the way to the Canary islands, after 6 days adrift. The bodies of 11 of the victims were thrown overboard by the other passengers	El Pais
17/08/07	Turkey	6 people drowned and 5 were missing after a boat sank off Turkey's Aegean coast, about 100 meters offshore of Izmir	Kathimerini
15/08/07	Italy	The bodies of 14 drowned migrants were found 55 miles south of Lampedusa	Corriere della Sera
14/08/07	Turkey	32 migrants were injured and 2 were killed when a truck carrying them capsized near Yukari Bakracli village, in the eastern province of Van	The New Anatolian
13/08/07	France	17 migrants were drowned and 19 missing after their boat capsized off French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean	Le Monde
12/08/07	Italy	Body found off Lampedusa	Adnkronos
11/08/07	Italy	During the rescue operation of a boat carrying 250 migrants, 28 miles south of Lampedusa, the Italian authorities recovered a body from the sea	Ansa
11/08/07	Malta	11 people were reported to be missing after their boat capsized, 60 miles south of Malta, and was rescued by the Spanish cruise liner Jules Verne	Times of Malta
11/08/07	Malta	A Russian cargo ship rescued 25 migrants 50 miles off Malta's shores. They said one of them had died	Times of Malta
11/08/07	Italy	Gjon Kusani, 28 years old, Albanian, had died crossing by foot the Carso mountains trying to enter illegally in Italy from Slovenia	Il Piccolo
10/08/07	Turkey	Boat sank off Ayvalik, near Balikesir, heading to Lesvos. A man died, another one was missing	Kathimerini
09/08/07	Italy	One man drowned after a boat capsized 35 miles south off Capo Passero, in Sicily	Adnkronos
07/08/07	Spain	An immigrant who was trying to get into Spain died at Algeciras port, when he was hit by the truck under which he had been hiding during the ferry ride from Morocco	El Pais
04/08/07	Italy	Two men arrived in Pantelleria island by swimming, told 3 people were drowned	Adnkronos
02/08/07	Greece	A boat sank off Samos causing the death of a 27-year-old woman	Kathimerini
31/07/07	W. Sahara	Two migrants were shot dead by Moroccan border police along El Ayun's coast. The policemen opened the fire over a group of 37 people who were embarking towards Canary islands, during the night	Afrik
28/07/07	Malta	A boat with 25 illegal immigrants had disappeared in choppy waters between Malta and Libya	Times of Malta
27/07/07	Tunisie	Heading to Sardinia, a man died on a boat went adrift off Tabarqa, near the Algerian border	France Presse
25/07/07	Malta	9 people reported to be missing after their boat capsized off Sicily, close to Maltese territorial waters	Times of Malta
26/07/07	Algeria	Migrant body found along Arzew coast, near Oran	Le Quotidien d'Oran
25/07/07	Italy	Body found near a capsized boat, 18 miles south off Sicily. No news concerning the other passengers, who maybe were also drowned	La Sicilia
23/07/07	Egypt	A Sudanese woman was shot dead after Egyptian police opened fire on a group of 26 migrants intercepted along the Israeli border, 15 km from Rafah	AFP
23/07/07	Italy	Two migrants drowned as a boat rescued by the Sicilian fishing boat "Salvatore Caterina", 80 miles north off Libya, capsized	Repubblica
22/07/07	W. Sahara	At least 40 Saharawis were reported to be missing while two bodies were found, after a shipwreck off Naa'ila, at the north of El Ayun, on the way to Canary islands	Alter Forum
22/07/07	Malta	A man disappeared and 2 drowned as a group of Africans were being transferred to an Army vessel, 30 miles south off Malta	Times of Malta
21/07/07	France	Two migrants were drowned and 27 missing after their boat capsized off French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean	Le Monde
19/07/07	Spain	Three bodies recovered from the sea, 90 miles south off Canary	El Pais
19/07/07	Spain	At least 88 people died after a pirogue capsized during the rescue operations, 90 miles off Canary island of Tenerife All the bodies were lost in the stormy sea	El Pais
18/07/07	Italy	Three men and a child drowned after a boat capsized 40 miles at south of Lampedusa	Repubblica
18/07/07	Libya	One body found and 11 people reported to be missing after a shipwreck 187 miles at south of Lampedusa	Repubblica
17/07/07	Spain	Man found dead on a migrants boat landed in Canary islands, at Los Cristianos	El Pais
16/07/07	Niger	According to a migrant landed in Lampedusa, in Italy, 34 people died dehydrated one month before, between Madama and the Libyan border check point of Toumou	Fortress Europe
14/07/07	Italy	The bodies of three suffocated stowaways were found in a truck, where they were hidden, travelling towards Germany	Repubblica
08/07/07	France	A twenty years old woman died hit by a car, trying to escape police in Calais	Association Salam
08/07/07	Malta	Two corpses recovered at sea, one about 110 miles off the island, and the other one in Marsascala's bay	Malta Media
04/07/07	Tunisia	Tunisian Coast Guard found the bodies of 20 drowned migrants off Ben Guerdane, near the Libyan border, shipwrecked on the way to Sicily	Le Monde
04/07/07	Spain	Two migrants were found dead aboard a boat landed in Canary islands, in Tenerife	El Pais
03/07/07	Algeria	4 migrants were reported to be missing after a boat was rescued off Arzew, on the way to Spain	Le Quotidien d'Oran
29/06/07	Italy	The body of a drowned migrant was found 10 miles off Lampedusa	Repubblica
29/06/07	Italy	Migrants boat landed in Pozzallo, in Sicily. According to the passengers, 3 people died during the navigation and their bodies were thrown into sea	Ansa
29/06/07	Malta	20 migrants ended on a tuna pen towed by the Icelandic vessel Eyborg, after their boat capsized. A woman had died and at least 7 people were lost at sea	Times of Malta
29/06/07	Italy	According to the 23 shipwrecked rescued yesterday off Malta, 4 other people of their group drowned and were lost at sea: a man, two women and a child	Adnkronos
28/06/07	Malta	A woman died after 23 migrants were rescued clinging to a tuna pen off the island	Ansa
28/06/07	Malta	The decomposed body of a man was recovered 8 miles off Dingli	Times of Malta
27/06/07	Spain	Migrant found dead among the passengers aboard a boat landed at Gran Canaria	El Mundo
26/06/07	Malta	The body of a drowned woman was pulled out off Mgarr sea, in Gozo island	Ansa
26/06/07	Malta	Migrants boat land in Malta. The passengers said they threw into sea the bodies of 2 men died after 7 days of navigation	Times of Malta
26/06/07	Italy	Migrants boat land in Sicily, near Siracusa. The passengers said they threw into sea the bodies of 3 people, a child, a man and a woman, died after 12 days of navigation	Repubblica
21/06/07	Malta	The Italian fishing boat Valeria, rescued a man hanging on a capsized boat, 80 miles south of Malta since three days. According to him, 24 people drowned in the shipwreck	Repubblica
21/06/07	Malta	4 corpses were spotted at sea, 55 miles south west of Malta, maybe victims of the shipwreck of yesterday	Times of Malta
20/06/07	Malta	21 illegal immigrants are believed to have been lost at sea as 4 survivors and a corpse were picked up by the Armed Forces of Malta	Times of Malta
18/06/07	Italy	Body found 53 miles south of Lampedusa, maybe a victim of the shipwreck of yesterday	Ansa
17/06/07	Italy	The bodies of 11 drowned migrants were found 60 miles south of Lampedusa, while 3 others were reported to be missing	Repubblica
15/06/07	Tunisia	The bodies of 2 drowned migrants were pulled out of Zarzis sea, close to the Libyan border	Sea Memory
15/06/07	Libya	The Spanish fishing boat "Nuestra Madre de Loreto" rescued 25 migrants went adrift 90 miles off Libya. A man was found dead aboard	Reuters
14/06/07	Malta	A man fell overboard and was lost at sea before a migrants boat were rescued off the island	Times of Malta
13/06/07	France	A man suffocated, hidden on a truck coming from Italy. His body was found near Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne (Savoie), close to the Italian border	Nouvel Observateur
11/06/07	Spain	A 23 years old man died during a deportation flight to Nigeria	El Pais
11/06/07	Greece	The bodies of 2 drowned migrants were pulled out of the sea off Samos island	Kathimerini
11/06/07	Libya	25 people could be drowned, 47 miles off Libyan coasts, three day after Malta, Libya and an Iranian cargo ship failed to go to their aid despite requests from the migrants boat, citing bad weather	Times of Malta
09/06/07	Spain	Pregnant woman suffered abortion along the route to Canary islands, the fetus was left in the sea	El Pais
05/06/07	Algeria	Sailing to Sardinia, a boat sank along Algerian coast, near the Tunisian border. 8 bodies were found in the sea, but other 20 are still missing	Reuters
05/06/07	Spain	2 dead people among the passengers aboard a boat landed at Canary island Gran Canaria	El Pais
01/06/07	Malta	The French Navy ship "La Motte Picquet" found 21 bodies of drowned migrants 120 south of Malta	Repubblica
31/05/07	Western Sahara	Departed three weeks ago from Boujdour, sailing to Canary islands, 8 Moroccans are reported to be missing	Alter Forum
25/05/07	Tunisia	A fisherman found the body of a drowned migrant in the sea of Zarzis	Sea Memory
22/05/07	Senegal	3 dead people and 2 survivors found aboard a boat going adrift off Lompoul. Tens of people coul be missing	Aps
22/05/07	Malta	Malta lost contact with a boat carrying 57 people, including 6 children, after it sank 90 miles south of the island	Repubblica
21/05/07	Malta	A man was reported to be missing after a boat capsized 70 miles south of Malta	Ansa
20/05/07	Italy	Boat rescued off Lampedusa, the survivors said 2 people died and their bodies were throwned in the sea	Ansa
18/05/07	Malta	28 people, including 3 children, reported to be drowned after their boat capsized 75 miles off Malta	Times of Malta
11/05/07	Morocco	13 people drowned after their dinghy sank off Nador, sailing toward Spain	Le Journal
07/05/07	Italy	Boat rescued off Palermo. One passenger aboard found dead for dehydration	Italpress
30/04/07	Spain	A migrant died in Las Palmas Insular hospital, where he had been hospitalised in critical conditions of hypothermia and dehydration after being rescued the day before 60 miles off Gran Canaria	El Pais
28/04/07	Spain	3 dead people among the passengers aboard a boat landed in Canary islands, in Gran Canaria	El Pais
27/04/07	Greece	A 15-years-old girl drowned and two others, including a one-year-old infant, were reported missing after the guides forced the passengers to jump into the sea close to the island of Leros	Kathimerini
26/04/07	Spain	2 dead people among the passengers aboard a boat landed in Canary islands, in Tenerife	El Pais
23/04/07	Mauritania	Migrants boat rescued off Nouadhibou, on the way to Canary islands, 2 persons aboard were found dead and 11 were reported to be missing. 13 passengers have then been hospitalised in Dakar, 6 of them in critical conditions	El Pais
21/04/07	Algeria	2 people drowned before their boat was rescued off Annaba, on the way to Sardinia	El Watan
05/04/07	Sahara	Rescued off Laayoune a migrants boat departed from Mauritania, the bodies of 2 dead people were abandoned into the sea by the other passengers after 8 days in the sea	Alter Forum
04/04/07	Spain	A man drowned and another was reported to be missing after they fell in the sea during the rescue operations near Malaga	El Pais
28/03/07	Turkey	Found the bodies of 7 people frozen to death in the east of the country after sneaking across the border from Iran	Turkish Daily News
26/03/07	Italy	Lampedusa, a man is reported to be missing after a small boat sank near Muro vecchio	L'Unità
17/03/07	Greece	The coast guard retrieved the bodies of 7 people washed ashore on the island of Samos after their boat sank. 4 others people were reported missing	Kathimerini
08/03/07	Spain	Boat rescued off Tenerife, in the Canary islands, 3 people aboard were found dead, another one died in the first days of a one week travel	El Pais
21/02/07	Italia	Inflatable boat rescued off Lampedusa island. According to the passengers, 19 among people aboard died after 5 days adrift. Their bodies were thrown in the sea	Il Manifesto
21/02/07	Morocco	A migrant deported to Oujda, along the Algerian border, died of a renal failure	Mountada Rihab
17/02/07	Greece	5 people died, including 2 women, and 20 were missing after a boat sank off Samos island	Kathimerini
13/02/07	Sahara	A boat was rescued off Boujdour. A man was found dead aboard	News 24
11/02/07	Algeria	Migrant body found along Sidi Yacoub coast, near Ghazaouet	Le Quotidien d'Oran
05/02/07	Greece	7 bodies were found and 12 people were missing after a shipwreck off the island of Samos	Kathimerini
18/01/07	Greece	Two migrants died and 5 were missing after a boat capsized off Samos island	Kathimerini
18/01/07	Algeria	The bodies of 33 drowned people were found off Annaba coast after a shipwreck along the new sea route to Sardinia, in Italy	La Nuova Sardegna
17/01/07	Belgium	Brussels, Zaventem airport. The frozen body of a young man was found in the undercarriage of a Brussels Airlines airplane arrived from Gambia	Angola Press
08/01/07	France	Two migrants were drowned and 19 missing after their boat capsized off French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean	Le Monde
07/01/07	Tunisia	Migrant body found near Bizerte	Le Quotidien d'Oran
02/01/07	Morocco	Between the 23rd and the 29th of December 2006 at least 450 people were deported by Moroccan police and abandoned along the Algerian border in the desert near Oujda. Among them 10 women, including 3 pregnant ones, and 11 children, including a disabled one. Once they came back in Oujda, 6 women denounced they were raped by Moroccan and Algerian policemen, and by a Nigerian gang. One of them she was pregnant at the sixth month and lost her child after the violence	Migreurop
01/01/07	Spain	Migrants boat lands to Canary islands, one dead man aboard; thrown in the sea the bodies of others 2 victims	El Mundo