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Libya Observer
3 days ago
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- Libya Observer
Italy rescues hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean after departures from Libya
The Italian coastguard has rescued around 200 migrants stranded in the central Mediterranean after departing from the Libyan coast aboard a fishing vessel. According to the non-governmental organisation Alarm Phone, the rescued migrants were transferred to the Italian island of Sicily. In a separate operation, the same platform reported that 40 additional migrants were rescued by the Italian coastguard after they ran out of fuel at sea. The group, also departing from Libya, had been sending distress calls since Sunday. Alarm Phone also reported a vessel carrying 50 migrants that had left the Libyan coast and was later found stranded on an offshore oil platform in the central Mediterranean. Authorities are still working to determine the vessel's exact location. Another boat, reportedly carrying over 25 migrants bound for Spain, has also departed from the Libyan coast, according to the NGO. So far in 2025, at least 652 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea, according to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Tags: Italy migrants
Arab News
09-03-2025
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- Arab News
Migrant rescue NGO saves 25 people off Libyan coast
MARSEILLE: French migrant rescue group SOS Mediterranee brought 25 people stranded off the Libyan coast aboard its Ocean Viking vessel on Sunday, the NGO said. Those rescued, including three women and seven minors, are 'currently being cared for by the Red Cross and SOS Mediterranee teams' aboard the Ocean Viking, the Marseille-based group said in a statement. Five of the minors are unaccompanied while two of the children are aged under four, the statement added. The boat in distress was spotted thanks to an alert issued by Alarm Phone, a number used by migrants who run into trouble while attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing in hope of a better life in Europe. Since the beginning of 2025, 247 people have disappeared or died in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe, according to the latest figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). That toll follows the 2,360 people who died across the whole of 2024. The vast majority of the victims died in the central Mediterranean, one of the world's deadliest migration routes.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
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- Yahoo
Migrants rescued after several days stranded on oil platform
Thirty-two migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean have been rescued by an NGO ship after spending several days stranded on an oil platform off the coast of Tunisia. "Women, men and children" were shipwrecked with no food or water, according to Mediterranea, a migrant rescue charity. One person on the platform had died, the charity said. NGO Sea Watch said it had managed to rescue all 32 people from the gas platform on Tuesday afternoon, and that they were being looked after aboard the Aurora ship. However, the Aurora's final destination was unclear as no country nearby had yet assigned the ship a port of safety, Sea Watch said. It added that no European country had intervened "despite the imminent emergency" and the fact that the people were stranded in international waters on the border of the Tunisian and Maltese search and rescue (SAR) zones. NGO monitoring aircraft Seabird reportedly spotted an empty rubber dinghy near the platform on 1 March. The shipwrecked people then managed to contact Alarm Phone - an emergency hotline for migrants in trouble at sea. In the call, they said they had been without food for days and that their condition was critical. They also reported the death of one person, Sea Watch said. In a video apparently filmed by one of the people on the platform and shared by NGOs on social media, a young man in a white t-shirt could be heard saying that he and the others were "suffering from hunger and dying of cold". Speaking in Tigrinya - a language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea - the man said they left Libya five days ago and that the dinghy they were travelling on capsized. "Those who made it here and didn't die at sea are dying of hunger and exhaustion, if in the few hours nobody does anything we will obviously die... We have only little chance [to survive]," he said. Behind him were several people apparently shivering from the cold as the waves crashed against the oil platform's pillars. Over 210,000 people tried to cross the Central Mediterranean in 2023, according to data shared by the UN. More than 60,000 were intercepted and sent back to African shores, and nearly 2000 lost their lives at sea. On a boat picking up migrants in the middle of the Med Italian state of emergency to tackle migrant boats
Yahoo
04-03-2025
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- Yahoo
Migrants rescued after several days stranded on oil platform
Thirty-two migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean have been rescued by an NGO ship after spending several days stranded on an oil platform off the coast of Tunisia. "Women, men and children" were shipwrecked with no food or water, according to Mediterranea, a migrant rescue charity. One person on the platform had died, the charity said. NGO Sea Watch said it had managed to rescue all 32 people from the gas platform on Tuesday afternoon, and that they were being looked after aboard the Aurora ship. However, the Aurora's final destination was unclear as no country nearby had yet assigned the ship a port of safety, Sea Watch said. It added that no European country had intervened "despite the imminent emergency" and the fact that the people were stranded in international waters on the border of the Tunisian and Maltese search and rescue (SAR) zones. NGO monitoring aircraft Seabird reportedly spotted an empty rubber dinghy near the platform on 1 March. The shipwrecked people then managed to contact Alarm Phone - an emergency hotline for migrants in trouble at sea. In the call, they said they had been without food for days and that their condition was critical. They also reported the death of one person, Sea Watch said. In a video apparently filmed by one of the people on the platform and shared by NGOs on social media, a young man in a white t-shirt could be heard saying that he and the others were "suffering from hunger and dying of cold". Speaking in Tigrinya - a language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea - the man said they left Libya five days ago and that the dinghy they were travelling on capsized. "Those who made it here and didn't die at sea are dying of hunger and exhaustion, if in the few hours nobody does anything we will obviously die... We have only little chance [to survive]," he said. Behind him were several people apparently shivering from the cold as the waves crashed against the oil platform's pillars. Over 210,000 people tried to cross the Central Mediterranean in 2023, according to data shared by the UN. More than 60,000 were intercepted and sent back to African shores, and nearly 2000 lost their lives at sea. On a boat picking up migrants in the middle of the Med Italian state of emergency to tackle migrant boats
BBC News
04-03-2025
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- BBC News
Migrants rescued after several days stranded on oil platform
Thirty-two migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean have been rescued by an NGO ship after spending several days stranded on an oil platform off the coast of Tunisia."Women, men and children" were shipwrecked with no food or water, according to Mediterranea, a migrant rescue charity. One person on the platform had died, the charity Sea Watch said it had managed to rescue all 32 people from the gas platform on Tuesday afternoon, and that they were being looked after aboard the Aurora ship. However, the Aurora's final destination was unclear as no country nearby had yet assigned the ship a port of safety, Sea Watch said. It added that no European country had intervened "despite the imminent emergency" and the fact that the people were stranded in international waters on the border of the Tunisian and Maltese search and rescue (SAR) zones. NGO monitoring aircraft Seabird reportedly spotted an empty rubber dinghy near the platform on 1 March. The shipwrecked people then managed to contact Alarm Phone - an emergency hotline for migrants in trouble at sea. In the call, they said they had been without food for days and that their condition was critical. They also reported the death of one person, Sea Watch a video apparently filmed by one of the people on the platform and shared by NGOs on social media, a young man in a white t-shirt could be heard saying that he and the others were "suffering from hunger and dying of cold".Speaking in Tigrinya - a language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea - the man said they left Libya five days ago and that the dinghy they were travelling on capsized. "Those who made it here and didn't die at sea are dying of hunger and exhaustion, if in the few hours nobody does anything we will obviously die... We have only little chance [to survive]," he said. Behind him were several people apparently shivering from the cold as the waves crashed against the oil platform's pillars. Over 210,000 people tried to cross the Central Mediterranean in 2023, according to data shared by the UN. More than 60,000 were intercepted and sent back to African shores, and nearly 2000 lost their lives at sea.
