Italy receives hundreds of migrants

A vessel with 363 migrants on board, operated by Spanish charity Open Arms has received the permission to dock in Sicilian port of Pozzallo. (Image above: illustration). 363 migrants allowed to disembark after several days in Mediterranean #OpenArms #Italy pic.twitter.com/VOPppFTFgI — Ruptly (@Ruptly) February 2, 2020 Earlier on February 1, the charity announced that they…

Italy faces uninterrupted migrant flows

The ship Ocean Viking has docked in the Italian port of Messina, carrying 213 migrants collected at sea.The operation happened in parallel with the efforts of the other NGOs, also transporting groups of migrants to Italy from African coast. (Imqge: illustration). UPDATE: the #OceanViking has just been assigned #Messina in Sicily as a place of…

Open Arms refuses to navigate to Spain

The Mediterranean Open Arms migrant rescue vessel has firmly rejected an offer of a safe port in Spain, explaining that the six day journey to Algeciras would be too risky for the passengers, whose moods have been already critical. Today, ignoring the maritime border,  some of 107 migrants have been jumping off the vessel and…

Open Arms: 27 migrants allowed ashore

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has agreed to let ashore 27 migrants from Mediterranean NGO rescue ship Open Arms, all of them claim that they are “unaccompanied teenagers”. #OpenArms #Updated disembarkation 27 unaccompanied minors begins pic.twitter.com/FBZzxt68Un — http://www.anoncandanga.com (@anon_candanga) August 17, 2019 Those who claim they are minors were allowed to disembark on the Italian…

Open Arms migrants receive Hollywood-style support

The Spanish ship Open Arms has been stranded off Italy‘s island of Lampedusa for eight days because none of the EU governments is willing to accept any number of migrants from the group of the 121 passengers navigated from Libyan coasts. #RichardGere arrives to support #OpenArms #SAR ship with over 100 migrants on board https://t.co/fe4kW8gJmU —…