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A boat carrying 130 migrants, including 18 women and 6 girls, from Egypt, Eritrea, and Sudan, departed from Libya at 4:00 a.m. on August 26, 2025, attempting to reach Europe.
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Migrant boat disaster off Libya kills 17 Sudanese, UN says

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says 17 Sudanese migrants died after a boat capsized near Tobruk, with nine still missing.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
30 April, 2026
Tanger Med [Getty]
Morocco
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Morocco to open two deep water ports in 2026 and 2028: minister

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
08 December, 2025
Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska speaks at a press conference with his Algerian counterpart, Said Sayoud
Algeria
MENA
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Algeria says working to bring back 7 teen migrants from Spain

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 October, 2025
The boat carrying migrants capsized after a chase with the Libyan Coast Guard
Libya
MENA
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Libyan coast guard chase in Mediterranean leaves 1 migrant dead

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
30 September, 2025
A Gaza bound flotilla boat is seen in Tunisian waters on 9 September
Gaza flotilla
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Drones from Turkey circle Gaza aid flotilla as boats sail east 

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 September, 2025
Huwaida Arraf (right) is seen on the Handala on 20 July [Getty]
Freedom Flotilla
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Huwaida Arraf: Why the Freedom Flotilla will keep defying Israel

Beirut Hammoud
24 July, 2025
Police reinforcements take a boat to the island of Kerkennah after residents of Sfax blocked access to a ferry on April 15, 2016. (Photo by FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)
Tunisia
MENA
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27 migrants die off Tunisia, 83 rescued, in shipwrecks

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 January, 2025
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Jordan's King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein at the MED9 leaders' summit at Minthis resort in Paphos
Jordan
MENA
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Jordanian and European leaders meet to de-escalate Middle East

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 October, 2024
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Italy
World
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Aid group MSF protests Italy migrant policy over suspended ship

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 September, 2024
Tunisia
MENA
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Tunisia urges Europe to increase assistance to tackle migration crisis

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 July, 2024
Tunisia
MENA
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Tunisia reports increase in migrant interceptions

The New Arab Staff
13 May, 2024
Libya
MENA
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Libya coast guard 'prevented' migrant rescue in Med Sea

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 March, 2024
Cyprus
MENA
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Sixty Syrian migrants including children rescued near Cyprus

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 January, 2024
Libya
MENA
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Over 60 dead off Libya coast in latest migrant tragedy: IOM

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 December, 2023
Frontex
World
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Europe 'helps Libya militia catch, drag back refugee boats'

The New Arab Staff
11 December, 2023
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Gaza War
Society
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Drop by drop: Israel's occupation of Gaza's water

Emad Moussa

Emad Moussa

29 November, 2023
Israel
MENA
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Israel: Migrant boat washes ashore, passengers' fate unknown

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
01 October, 2023
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Libya
MENA
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Mediterranean: 68 migrants rescued in intl waters off Libya

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 September, 2023
immigration attempt prevented with an operation in Tunisia
Italy
World
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Tunisian rapper Junior Hassen reaches Italy on migrant boat

The New Arab Staff
19 August, 2023
Pope Francis
MENA
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Pope Francis denounces Mediterranean migrant deaths

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 August, 2023
Tunisia
MENA
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Baby among two dead as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia coast

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
12 August, 2023