Italian authorities have detained the Ocean Viking migrant rescue vessel for 20 days over its alleged failure to follow a prescribed route after rescuing dozens of people off the Libyan coast, the ship’s operator said Sunday.
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Three groups of migrants and refugees respectively numbering 68, 15 and 54 people (137 in total) landed on Lampedusa, Italy between midnight and dawn on Wednesday morning, Italian ANSA reported.
Angelo Bonelli, a member of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies, claimed that his country’s government, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is complicit in the abuse and trafficking of migrants in Libya.
The Libyan Finance Minister, Khaled Al-Mabrouk, and his Italian counterpart Giancarlo Giorgetti held a meeting in Tripoli on Friday.
Eni, tan Italian multinational energy company, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have signed a 5-year-term cooperation agreement to contribute to boost youth employment in Libya’s Fezzan region.
A new agreement on air services between Libya and Italy was signed today in Tripoli by the civil aviation authorities of both countries.
On Saturday evening, the rescue ship Humanity 1 was detained in Crotone, southern Italy, after disembarking 200 people rescued from distress at sea, said SOS Humanity NGO.
A fishing boat with 573 migrants landed on Lampedusa, Italy on Monday after being rescued off the island by Coast Guard patrol boats, Italian ANSA News reported.
The International Center for Advanced Agronomic Studies of the Mediterranean in Bari (Ciheam Bari) and the Italian Embassy in Libya delivered on Sunday agricultural machinery intended for the municipality of Sebha, the capital of southern Fezzan, for the launch of services for cereal producers in the area.
Since the beginning of the year, an average of eight people lost their lives or went missing each day while trying to cross the central Mediterranean towards Italy, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).