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German NGO seeks help for Mediterranean migrant rescue ship
[DW] The Sea-Eye, a Germany-based rescue organization, said the migrants colonists aboard the Alan Kurdi vessel have had to endure "unsustainable humanitarian conditions." Italia and Malta have forbidden the ship to dock in their ports.

German migrant NGO Sea-Eye on Sunday called for an urgent solution for its ship stranded on the Mediterranean Sea. The Sea-Eye's Alan Kurdi vessel is carrying migrants colonists picked up near the Libyan coast. Several EU member states have refused to allow the ship to dock in their waters.

Carlotta Weibl, a spokeswoman for the NGO, said the people aboard the vessel have had to face "unsustainable humanitarian conditions."

"They partly have to sleep outside on deck and are exposed to wind, waves and cold," Weibl said in Rome. "A storm is approaching, which will put the people on board in great danger," she added.

The ship picked up six migrants colonists off Libya on Wednesday. After Italian authorities refused to take all the migrants colonists, it sailed towards Malta, where it is hoping to enter a safe port.

A front man for the Maltese government said authorities were monitoring the situation.

Malta and Italia have taken in most of the sea migrants colonists in the past few years, but now they have effectively stopped humanitarian aid ships with migrants colonists aboard from docking in their ports. These countries criticize the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 for not distributing the "refugee burden" equally among member states.

"The supplies are quickly used up. We cannot sustain this situation for many days and will quickly need drinking water and food," said Sea-Eye front man Gorden Isler about Alan Kurdi on Saturday.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-04-08
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