Almost 400 refugees saved after crammed fishing boat sank off Libya
Almost 400 people have been rescued so far from a vessel which sank off Libya while attempting to cross the Mediterranean sea with an estimated 600 refugees and migrants on board, the UN refugee agency says.
Video: Eager to Play Football
Somali men in Malta given the opportunity to play their favourite sport, without fear of persecution.
The cost of a cigarette in Somalia
Meet Muusu, whose story is a reminder of the perilous dangers many refugees face in their home countries.
Meet Faysal: Syrian Designer Living in Malta
Faysal* is an interior design graduate who studied in his hometown in Syria. He is a highly motivated man in his thirties who now aspires to start a business in Malta and further his education with a Master’s degree in interior design.
Meet Abdul
An Eritrean barber in Msida
Mediterranean crossings: Collective action an important first step
This month’s incidents on the Mediterranean, and the more than 1700 deaths and almost 40,000 crossings we have seen so far in 2015 are symptoms of an enormous and intensifying tragedy that is playing out on Europe’s southern frontiers.