Migrants in critical condition after five days adrift at sea with broken engine

Activist network Alarm Phone says the EU and Libyan Coastguard’s slow response to the tragedy was reflective of the way they respond to migrant distress calls TWO migrants remained in critical condition after having spent several days adrift in the Mediterranean sea, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) reported this morning. Alarm Phone, an independent support

Plight over for the Ocean Viking’s 182 refugees after landing in Italy

ONE hundred and eighty-two refugees finally disembarked from an NGO migrant rescue ship in Italy this morning after spending a week adrift at sea. Over 200 refugees were fished out of the Mediterranean sea in three separate operations by the crew aboard the Ocean Viking, a ship operated by the French charities SOS Mediterranee and

EU complicit in Libyan Coastguard’s ‘crimes against humanity,’ migrant rescue NGO charges

THE European Union is complicit in “crimes against humanity” because of its support for the Libyan coastguard, a migrant rescue charity said today following the killing of a Sudanese man whose escape from Libya was intercepted by the EU-funded operation. Doctors from the intergovernmental group International Organisation for Migration (IOM) witnessed the tragedy on Thursday

Police raid migrant squats in central Athens

POLICE officers raided two refugee squats in central Athens in the early hours of this morning, evicting over 250 people, including roughly 70 children, from their homes in the city centre. The central neighbourhood of Exarcheia has long been home to the city’s undocumented migrant population who have lived there with the support of anarchist

Bleeding pregnant woman one of 45 migrants rescued from wooden ship near Malta

A BLEEDING pregnant woman in need of urgent medical care was one of approximately 45 migrants on board a stranded wooden boat in Malta’s territorial waters today. At 8am this morning the boat she was on contacted Alarm Phone, an independent support service for migrants attempting to reach Europe from across the Mediterranean, saying they

Italy claims EU agrees deal to take in migrants on the Ocean Viking but crew says it’s not been given a port

THE NGO migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking with 82 migrants on board remains at sea without a port of safety despite Italy declaring yesterday that it had reached a deal with EU countries to take them in. Yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said his new government, along with the Democratic Party, had reached a

Malta finally allows migrants on board the Alan Kurdi to disembark after a ten day stand-off

MALTA has finally agreed this evening to allow an NGO migrant rescue ship with five survivors on board to enter its ports, putting an end to yet another humanitarian stand-off in the Mediterranean Sea. Ten days ago, the Alan Kurdi — a vessel operated by the German charity Sea Eye — rescued 13 young men