In a statement, MSF received an alert from the Mediterranean hotline, Alarm Phone, that a large humanitarian boat of
The organization said that among them were many Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
ns, and almost half were minors between the age of 15 and 17, most of whom were travelling alone. "Our teams are treating several people for mild hypothermia but all are doing well; they reported spending the night at sea after fleeing Libya," MSF added.
It noted that the MSF-run ship had rescued 87 others, including two children on Wednesday.
Accordingly, another ship, Mare Jonio, run by the Italian rescue charity Mediterranea Saving Humans, claimed it had saved around 100 people in a four-hour search and rescue operation on Tuesday night. The
The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...has struggled to find a common policy to tackle the migration issue. Rescue operations are usually followed by wrangling between member states to determine where the
In 2021, a total of 31,456
Libya has been suffering insecurity and chaos since the fall of its leader Muammar Qadaffy
...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him...
in 2011. This has made it the preferred point of departure for
Human traffickers have benefited from the chaos in the oil-rich nation, and smuggled
Those returned have been taken to detention centers rife with abuses, including forced labour, beatings, rapes, and torture. The abuse often accompanies efforts to extort money from families before
UN-commissioned Sherlocks said in October that abuse and ill-treatment of