Italy: More than 1,500 migrants arrive in Sicily and Sardinia

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Italy: More than 1,500 migrants arrive in Sicily and Sardinia
last updated: 24/08/2015
Euronews

More than 1,500 migrants landed on Italian shores on Monday, as the influx of desperate people fleeing conflict and poverty continues.

Some 550 migrants were brought to shore in the Sicilian capital of Palermo, including children – among them dozens of unaccompanied minors. More than most, these youngsters face an uncertain future.

Rescued by a Norwegian ship, almost 1,000 people arrived in Sardinia on Monday – also yearning for a fresh start.

After difficult and dangerous journeys, more than 100,000 migrants have reached Italy so far this year by sea.

The rise in migrants in the Mediterranean is largely the result of political instability in Somalia and Eritrea and the breakdown of order in Libya, as well as Syria’s civil war.

More than 2,000 people have died trying to make the crossing this year.

For many of the survivors, the hope now is to move on to wealthier northern Europe.

http://www.euronews.com/2015/08/24/i...y-and-sardinia

[Oddone]

It makes us so happy.

[MinervaItalica]

What is the point to post a 2015 news? Especially about immigration.

Welcome to 2017 op.

[Ranger0075]

they probably are in Sweden now

[MinervaItalica]

they probably are in Sweden now

Or in Germany.

[wvwvw]

The Norwegian ship that rescued them should take them to Norway.

[wvwvw]

Or in Germany.

I think they'll pick Tuscan for the climate

[wvwvw]

What is the point to post a 2015 news?

Welcome to 2017 op.

Oops I saw the headline omewhere else, regoogled it and apparently I posted the wrong link.

[crazyladybutterfly]

recently i am seeing more and more subsaharians , indians and believe it or not ... afghanis? yeah afghanis lol

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Fri Mar 3, 2017 | 1:44 PM EST
Hundreds rescued in Mediterranean as migrant arrivals in Italy outpace 2016


Migrants carry their belongings after a fire broke out at makeshift camp housing hundreds of migrants in the countryside near the village of Rignano Garganico, southern Italy, March 3, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

Rescuers plucked around 900 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Friday while hundreds more were brought to Sicily, as Italian figures showed far more people are braving the crossing from North Africa this year than last.

A Norwegian ship working for European Union border agency Frontex and a vessel from aid group SOS Mediterranee rescued migrants packed into four large rubber boats and six smaller vessels on Friday, Italy's coastguard said in a statement.

Meanwhile more than 800 people from African countries including Eritrea and Somalia, who were rescued on Thursday, were brought to the port of Augusta in southeastern Sicily.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN16A292