Italian coast guard Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/italian-coast-guard/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 05 Apr 2017 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 Italian coast guard Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/italian-coast-guard/ 32 32 More than 700 migrants rescued off Libyan coast https://jjcornish.com/2017/04/700-migrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/04/700-migrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast/ Humanitarian groups have rescued more than 700 migrants off the coast of Libya. The Italian coast guard is braced for an increase in the number of  desperate people trying to reach their shores as summer approaches. ends intro The migrants were picked up from seven flimsy and overcrowded boats. The Phoenix rescue ship, operated by […]

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The Italian coast guard is braced for an increase in the number of  desperate people trying to reach their shores as summer approaches.

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The migrants were picked up from seven flimsy and overcrowded boats.

The Phoenix rescue ship, operated by the Malta-based non-governmental organization MOAS, rescued more than 300 people from three boats in international waters off the coast of the Libyan city of Sabratha.

The Aquarius, operated by SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders, went to the aid of four rubber boats.

Migrants arriving in Italy on boats from North Africa are up some 30 percent so far this year.

Some 600 people have died trying to reach Italy in 2017.

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]]> Crew quits another migrantship off Italy https://jjcornish.com/2015/01/crew-quits-another-migrantship-italy/ Thu, 01 Jan 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/01/crew-quits-another-migrantship-italy/ Rough seas are making it difficult for Italian coastguards dealing with a second vessel filled with migrants and abandoned by the crew off their southern coast. This one is a Sierra Leonean registered vessel carrying 400 people. Only days ago, the Italian navy boarded a Moldovan-registered ship abandoned by its crew They prevented it from […]

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]]> Rough seas are making it difficult for Italian coastguards dealing with a second vessel filled with migrants and abandoned by the crew off their southern coast.

This one is a Sierra Leonean registered vessel carrying 400 people.

Only days ago, the Italian navy boarded a Moldovan-registered ship abandoned by its crew

They prevented it from running aground and got it safely to port

Italian Coast Guards have been unable to board the second vessel because of bad weather.

It’s about 60 kms off the rocky coast.

Most of the migrants aboard the vessel used to carry livestock are from Africa.

The operation underlines Italy’s insistence that although it is the country migrants reach first after negotiating the Mediterranean, saving these desperate people is not a responsibility it should carry alone.

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