(Arab News) Officials from the Italian Ministry of the Interior in charge of migration policies expect 30,000 migrants to arrive from Libya by the end of 2021, part of a total of 70,000 expected to reach the coasts of Sicily from the North African coastline.
As of June 1, the turnstile counter on the ministry’s dashboard read 14,412 arrivals from North Africa. The number is almost three times greater than the number of arrivals in the same period in 2020.
Only on Wednesday, 232 foreigners docked in the seaport of Roccella Jonica, in Calabria, the southern tip of the Italian boot.
The ministry is alarmed at the trend.
