JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Search and rescue efforts were underway in South Africa on Saturday to find 11 fishermen missing at sea after their vessel sunk off the coast of Cape Town, the fisheries department said.
Nine fishermen who had managed to deploy an emergency craft were rescued, the department said in a statement.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the missing fishermen and their families as we await news of the search and rescue... (continue reading...)
TUNIS (Reuters) - About 23 migrants were missing after setting off in a boat from Tunisia towards Italy, the country's national guard said on Saturday.
Tunisia is facing a migration crisis and has replaced Libya as a main departure point for people fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa and the Middle East in the hope of a better life in Europe.
The national guard said it had deployed floating units and had informed the navy to help in... (continue reading...)
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian rescue teams were searching on Saturday for three missing crew members of a cargo ship that sank off the Black Sea coast, the naval authority said.
Officials said they were notified very early on Saturday that the Tanzania-flagged Mohammad Z had sunk 26 nautical miles away from Romania's Danube village of Sfantu Gheorghe.
The naval authority's Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC), border police and two... (continue reading...)
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will invest 10 billion zlotys ($2.55 billion) in a programme to secure its eastern border, the prime minister said on Saturday, in a bid to bolster its defences against what it says is a rising threat from Russia and Belarus.
Poland's border with Belarus has been a flashpoint since migrants started flocking there in 2021, after Minsk, a close Russian ally, opened travel agencies in the Middle East offering a new unofficial... (continue reading...)
TUNIS (Reuters) - Freedoms in Tunisia are being threatened under the rule of President Kais Saied and the authorities are using the judiciary and police to punish their opponents, 10 local rights groups said at a joint conference on Saturday.
Police this month arrested 10 people, including lawyers, activists, journalists and officials of civil society groups, in what was described as a crackdown by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, who... (continue reading...)
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