Immigration: Shipwrecks Continue in an Increasingly Opaque Mediterranean

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Between 14 and 21 January, eight boats from the Sfax region of Tunisia were reported in distress. According to Radio Radicale, up to 380 people were on board these boats spotted by the Italian coastguard. All are now reported missing.

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The evacuation of the "Sider", a merchant ship, by a RHIB (rigid pneumatic boat), by the "Ocean Viking" rescue team off the Libyan coast, on 17 January 2026. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP On Friday, 30 March, around 10 a.m., the crew of the Ocean Viking saw a floating shape, jammed by the waves of a winter sea, somewhere in the Mediterranean, between the Tunisian coast and the Italian island of Lampedusa. In this area where the precarious boats on which…