The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa should be a holiday paradise. The most southerly territory of Italy lies exactly between that country and North Africa. With a population of around 6,000 ...

Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed.

On Lampedusa, the lucky few who made it across the sea live in misery. Overcrowding, lack of food and police violence plague the people who fled to Italy praying for a better life.

LAMPEDUSA, Italy — The small harbor in Lampedusa is crowded with a fleet of dilapidated wooden and metal smuggler's boats, some half-submerged. Discarded life jackets, filthy clothes and plastic ...

On Lampedusa, there's sympathy for migrants — as long as they don't stay. Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population of this island — arrived in a single week this month.

We need people and aid," said Lampedusa Mayor Filippo Mannino. Migrants queue as they wait to be transferred to the main land, on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, Sept. 14, 2023.

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 15 - A reported 48 migrants landed at dawn on Tuesday on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where on Monday 23 landings were registered for a total of 960 people. Early on ...

The Tale of Lampedusa European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni visit a reception center for migrants on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy ...

Lampedusa’s mayor said on Sept. 14, 2023, that 7,000 migrants had arrived in 48 hours. But it is wrong to say the same number of migrants arrived on the island between March 23-25, 2024.

"Lampedusa makes it possible to stage two complementary narratives, that of repression and that of welcome," he said. Pope Francis has defended migrants there, ...

Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed.