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Notícia: (em português) Naufrágio de barco de imigrantes na Líbia tem 15 mortos e 40 desaparecidos

 TRÍPOLI — Quinze imigrantes somalis morreram e outros 40 passageiros estão desaparecidos após o naufrágio nesta semana de um navio perto da cidade líbia de Misrata (oeste), anunciou neste sábado o embaixador da Somália em Trípoli, Abdelghami Wais.

"Quinze corpos foram encontrados na costa de Misrata, entre os quais o de uma criança e os de doze mulheres. Os outros foram considerados desaparecidos", declarou Wais em sua volta de Misrata, onde as vítimas, encontradas na quarta, foram enterradas.

Segundo o embaixador, o navio transportava 55 pessoas, todas elas imigrantes clandestinos que tentavam chegar à Europa.

Na terça-feira, o ministro líbio do Interior, Fawzi Abdelali, indicou que seu país enfrenta "enormes problemas" devido à afluência de milhares de imigrantes clandestinos.

"A Líbia precisa de muitos recursos para controlar (a imigração). A Líbia não será a guarda fronteiriça da Europa. Mesmo que ela quisesse, não poderia", havia dito o ministro.

No início de dezembro, as autoridades líbias anunciaram a interceptação de um barco transportando mais de 400 imigrantes africanos que iam para a Itália.

Muitos africanos se arriscam em embarcações precárias para tentar a perigosa travessia a partir da costa líbia por Malta ou pela ilha italiana de Lampedusa, ao longo da Sicília. Centenas morrem todos os anos.

Fonte:Google Notícias: AFP

Notícia: Boat capsizes off Libya coast: 15 dead | News24

Boat capsizes off Libya coast: 15 dead | News24

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«Tripoli - At least 15 Somali migrants were killed and 40 left missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya this week, the Somali ambassador to Tripoli said on Saturday.

"Fifteen bodies, including one child and 12 women, were recovered off the coast of Misrata after their boat sank," ambassador Abdelghami Wais told AFP, adding the bodies were found on Wednesday on the shore of the western port city.

The boat had been carrying 55 Somalis, Wais said, and the other passengers were still missing. "I've just returned from Misrata after the burials," the envoy said.»

Ler o resto aqui: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Boat-capsizes-off-Libya-coast-15-dead-20120128

Novas datas do espectáculo "Lampedusa"

Na Casa de Teatro de Sintra:

17 a 26 de Fevereiro de 2012

Sextas, Sábados e Domingos, às 21h30

Notícia: (EN) Centenas de Tunisinos que rumaram a Lampedusa em 2011 continuam desaparecidos | Migrants at Sea

Hundreds of Tunisians Who Sailed to Lampedusa in 2011 Remain Missing | MIGRANTS AT SEA

Hundreds of Tunisians who departed Tunisia for Lampedusa by sea in early 2011 remain missing. Some of the missing almost certainly died at sea, but family members remain hopeful that others survived the voyage and are now in Italy or elsewhere in Europe. Earlier this week dozens of mothers of the missing demonstrated outside the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a visit by an Italian parliamentary delegation led by Margherita Boniver. The mothers have been holding daily demonstrations calling for assistance from Tunisian and Italian authorities. The two governments have been asked to cross check fingerprint information. Tunisia collects fingerprint information for national identity cards and Italian authorities have collected fingerprint information from arriving migrants. There is speculation that some of the migrants may have used false names upon reaching Italy and as a result are more difficult to locate.

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Fonte: Migrants at Sea

Notícia: People traffickers 'flung 12 human sacrifices from Italy-bound boat in voodoo ritual to calm stormy seas'

People traffickers 'flung 12 human sacrifices from Italy-bound boat in voodoo ritual to calm stormy seas'

By Nick Pisa

Five people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after more than a dozen illegal immigrants were thrown from a boat in a 'voodoo ritual to calm stormy seas,' an Italian prosecutor revealed today.

Survivors gave police an horrific account of how human 'sacrifices' were picked from a ship crammed with 400 people after the engine failed.

The captain, a Nigerian, allegedly picked the victims on ethnic origin or nationality.

Witnesses described a number of women performing a macabre 'magic dance' before the victims were flung overboard to 'calm the seas and placate the devil'.

 A group of refugees from Libya sails into Lampedusa: Survivors on one boat claimed the crew threw human sacrifices overboard (file picture)

The ship was sailing from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa, which has been inundated with refugees fleeing the troubles in the Middle East

It was eventually escorted into harbour by coastguards after sending a mayday signal. 

When the boat reached Lampedusa, 25 illegal immigrants were found dead in the hold.

They had suffocated due to the poisionous fumes from the engine and the cramped squalid conditions on board.

Dozens of others were rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration and exhaustion.

 

Police on the island carried out a three month investigation and have now held five West African men, aged between 28 and 44.

Prosecutor Ignazio Fonzo led the investigation and the suspects - who were granted leave to stay on humanitarian grounds - were held after a series of raids across southern Italy.

Mr Fonzo said: 'Survivors told us that the captain of the boat, a Nigerian, was the leader of the rituals that began after the engine on the boat failed and they were left stranded in stormy seas.

Inundated: Policemen stand guard as migrants wait to be shipped from Lampedusa to places across southern Italy

Ler mais: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068606/Human-sacrifices-flung-Italy-bound-boat-voodoo-ritual.html#ixzz1gSiPuCNJ

Notícia: Política de asilo: menos palavras bonitas e mais solidariedade

«A Comissão Europeia propôs o reforço da solidariedade entre os Estados-Membros no domínio do asilo e que fosse assegurada a protecção das pessoas necessitadas de refúgio.

Os acontecimentos da Primavera árabe e o número crescente de migrantes que chegam a Malta e à ilha italiana de Lampedusa, trouxeram nos últimos meses para um primeiro plano a questão da solidariedade no domínio do asilo. Estes acontecimentos puseram ainda mais em destaque a necessidade de um sistema de asilo europeu comum e sublinharam a falta de confiança mútua entre os Estados-Membros.

A solidariedade tem de constituir um elemento de base da política da UE em matéria de asilo e a Comissão Europeia está a trabalhar nesse sentido. Embora já vigorem, em grande medida, regras comuns, a solidariedade entre os Estados-Membros da UE em matéria de asilo é ainda insuficiente. (...)

Fonte: http://www.correiodominho.com/noticias.php?id=57246