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 …
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 …
