Migrants stranded in Italy-Malta standoff

Italy and Malta are refusing to let a rescue ship with over 600 people aboard dock in their ports, leaving the migrants at sea as a diplomatic standoff escalates under Italy’s new anti-immigrant government


ARRIVAL OF REFUGEES / MIGRANTS BY SEA IN 2018: To June 11
SPAIN 11,308 
ITALY 13,706
GREECE 11,403
CYPRUS 12
Main migration routes
Schengen visa-free zone
Atlantic Ocean
MOROCCO
Mediterranean Sea
ALGERIA
FRANCE
TUNISIA
GERMANY
MALTA
LIBYA
EGYPT
Black Sea
TURKEY


COMPARISON OF SEA ARRIVALS (000s)
216	1,015	363	172	36 (to June 11)
2014 	2015 	2016 	2017 	2018


MV Aquarius: Ship of SOS Mediterranee aid group carrying 629 migrants stranded 65km from Italy and 50km from Malta


Sources: Associated Press, BBC, UNHCR 
Picture: Associated Press 
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