North African migrants fleeing Libya arrive at the port in the southern Sicily village of Porto Empedocle late on March 27, 2011 the first such group to reach Europe since the start of the uprising against Moamer Kadhafi. Three boats carried around 800 people -- mostly Eritreans, Ethiopians and Somalians -- and were taken to the tiny outcrop of Linosa close to the larger island of Lampedusa where thousands have been arriving from Tunisia.(AFP)