In the Central Mediterranean, on May 27 2024, during two different operations, the crew of the SOS Humanity 1 assisted 100 people, including pregnant women and children who were in danger. The Italian authorities designated the distant port of Livorno for the disembarkation. Between May 18 and June 02 2024, more than 371 migrants were rescued in the Central Mediterranean by humanitarian NGOs.

In the Western Mediterranean on May 21, 2024, LightHouse Reports and Enass published an investigation on the multiple persecutions faced by sub-Saharan communities in North Africa. A week later, on May 27 2024, in the south of Andalusia, 16 north African men were assisted by the Spanish coast guard and then transported to the port of Motril.

In the Eastern Mediterranean, Aegean Boat Report reported 3,034 pushbacks by the Greek Coast Guard since January 2020, involving 82,894 men, women and children. Finally, on 21 May 2024, a Greek judge dropped the charges against 9 men of Egyptian origin who had been accused of being behind the Pylos shipwreck in June 2023. At the trial, the Kalamata court considered that the case was not within its territorial jurisdiction. The Adriana disaster killed more than 500 people and the 9 Egyptians risked life in prison.

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