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Armed men in speedboats make off with women and children when a migrants’ dinghy deflates off Libya
1 month, 1 week ago

Armed men in speedboats make off with women and children when a migrants’ dinghy deflates off Libya

Associated Press  

MILAN — Armed men in two speedboats took off with women and children after a rubber dinghy carrying some 112 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea started deflating off Libya’s coast, a humanitarian aid group said Friday. Dozens of men and boys who were aboard the overcrowded dinghy jumped into the sea, Doctors Without Borders said. One speedboat had …

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NGO rescue ship saves 258 migrants off Libya in two operations
1 year, 3 months ago

NGO rescue ship saves 258 migrants off Libya in two operations

Associated Press  

ABOARD THE GEO BARENTS — A nonprofit rescue ship operating off the coast of Libya saved 258 migrants in two separate operations in the early hours of Friday morning. The first of the two rescues involved a 7-meter-long wooden boat filled with 162 migrants, including 17 women and 29 minors, many of them in a cramped area below the deck. …

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Stranded migrants disembark in Italy as one ship heads to France
2 years, 2 months ago

Stranded migrants disembark in Italy as one ship heads to France

Al Jazeera  

Nearly 250 people have been allowed to disembark after being shunned by Italy’s government as ‘residual cargo’. The new hard-right government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni last week remained silent to repeated requests by rescue groups to provide safe harbour, effectively blocking at sea the Norwegian flag-bearing Ocean Viking and Geo Barents and the German-flagged Humanity 1. On Sunday, Italian …

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Nearly 1,000 migrants stranded on board NGO ships as storm hits
2 years, 2 months ago

Nearly 1,000 migrants stranded on board NGO ships as storm hits

Al Jazeera  

Three NGO ships are stranded in the Mediterranean as Italy and Malta fail to greenlight entrance into port. “The latest request was made yesterday evening but we received no response,” Riccardo Gatti, MSF team leader on board the Geo Barents, told Al Jazeera via video message. Till Rummenhohl, head of operations at SOS Humanity, said the 179 people on board …

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Rescue vessel docks in Italy, disembarks 60 migrants
3 years, 3 months ago

Rescue vessel docks in Italy, disembarks 60 migrants

Associated Press  

ABOARD GEO BARENTS — A humanitarian vessel on Wednesday disembarked dozens of African migrants in an Italian coastal town a week after they were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off conflict-stricken Libya, a charity operating the vessel said. The Geo Barents, a rescue vessel operated by Doctors Without Borders, docked in the port town of Augusta late Tuesday after Italian …

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