calmer seas Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/calmer-seas/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 24 Jul 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 calmer seas Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/calmer-seas/ 32 32 Italian navy experiences one of its busiest rescue days https://jjcornish.com/2016/07/italian-navy-experiences-one-busiest-rescue-days/ Sun, 24 Jul 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/07/italian-navy-experiences-one-busiest-rescue-days/ More than 4 000 would-be refugees have been  rescued at sea in one of the busiest days of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Those saved in 22 separate operations by the Italian navy have been taken to the port of Caligari. Libyan-based people smugglers are taking advantage of calmer seas to sent desperate migrants north – […]

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]]> More than 4 000 would-be refugees have been  rescued at sea in one of the busiest days of the Mediterranean migrant crisis.

Those saved in 22 separate operations by the Italian navy have been taken to the port of Caligari.

Libyan-based people smugglers are taking advantage of calmer seas to sent desperate migrants north – but at enormous cost in human  lives.

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At least  20 died trying to reach Europe last weekend.

The death toll is likely to grow far higher.

The Libyan coast guard reported two overturned boats between Sabratha and Zwara. Only four bodies were found.

Volunteers have recovered the bodies of 41 presumed migrants washed up on a Libyan beach west of Tripoli.

They’ve been taken to the morgue for DNA testing before being buried.

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