Lampedusa
North African Migrants Are Dying in Droves on the Mediterranean
Since late 2011, Tunisian fishermen have been discovering the rotten corpses of migrants escaping poverty and the recent upsurge of unrest in North Africa.
More Than 2,000 Migrants Rescued Off Italy in the Last Two Days
Italy picked up thousands of people off the coast of Sicily this week, all desperately attempting to flee North Africa.
Hamburgers Rioted On Saturday
When the chips are down for refugees, Hamburg's antifascists are there to fight their corner.
Inside an Immigrant Refugee Camp in Italy
I gave a camera to a Nigerian immigrant who ended up in a refugee camp in Sicily after crossing the Mediterranean from Libya in a fishing boat. The photos he came back with show what day-to-day life is like for refugees like him.
Meet the Libyan Militia Detaining Migrants in a Zoo
Said Ben Suleiman's brigade—and some lions, camels, and spider monkeys—are on the frontline of Europe's immigration crisis. They run a holding cell in one of the zoo’s empty offices and make frequent raids on boatloads of migrants setting off from...
I Almost Died Traveling from Somalia to Lampedusa
"The cannibalism didn't start until our second boat journey, from Libya to Lampedusa. We had already been traveling for ten days; people were dying and there was no food. I actually saw one guy cutting a piece of flesh from another man's body. "
Europe Needs to Wake Up to the Boat Sinkings of Lampedusa
Why aren't we paying more attention to the plight of North African refugees off the Italian coast?