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

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