After the recent uprisings in Tunisia, thousands (more than 5.000) of people are fleeing the country and have landed in the Isle of Lampedusa. The situation of humanitarian emergency has been declared by the Interior Minister Roberto Maroni and by the Council of Ministers. Maroni has asked the European Union to help Italy tackling this…
A pilot who began praying instead of enacting emergency measures before a Tunisian charter flight plummeted into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Sicily and killed 16 people, has been convicted of manslaughter. The plane’s black box showed that the Tunisian pilot, Chefik Gharbi, lost control of the situation, and began to pray after…
About 150 immigrants from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh are expected to take part in a cricket tournament in Palermo. Palermo Councillor Giampiero Cannella said “the tournament is part of a municipal initiative in order to foment a real and concrete integration of immigrants that have chosen to live in Sicily, between them and Sicilians.”…
A new memorial is expected to be unveiled on the island of Lampedusa, near Sicily, to serve as a memorial and reminder of the thousands of would-be migrants to Italy, that have died during their travels. It is not certain the number of migrants that have died in the past 20 years of this escalation…
The Catholic charity ‘Caritas’ has plans to present an Arabic translation of the Italian constitution, in a bid to help immigrants integrate in Southern Italian towns. Caritas has plans to distribute the translated constitution to office, schools, and public abodes in the city of Agrigento, in southern Sicily. “Immigrants are welcome in our country, but…
