01. Mai 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Rescuers find 4 bodies, empty dinghy off coast of Libya“ · Kategorien: Italien, Libyen · Tags: ,

Middele East Eye | 30.04.2017

Empty rubber dinghy may signal another migrant tragedy in Mediterranean

Rescuers said on Sunday they had found four bodies off the Libyan coast and an empty rubber dinghy, signalling another migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean.

The crew of the Prudence, a rescue ship chartered by medical charity MSF found the four corpses about 78km off the coast, Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Twitter.

The discovery followed a search all day Saturday by the Iuventa, a ship operated by the German NGO Jugend Rettet, which had looked through deep fog for a vessel in distress after receiving an alert from the Italian coastguard.

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29. April 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „NATO looks to rebuild Libyan defence ministry and intelligence services“ · Kategorien: Libyen · Tags: , ,

Libya Herald | 29.04.2017

NATO is to send a team to Libya to help re-build state institutions, according to Jens Stoltenberg, the organisation’s Secretary-General.

He made announcement at a press conference following talks in Rome this week between himself and Italian premier Paulo Gentiloni.

The support aims at the creation of a modern ministry of defence, a joint chief of staff organisation and intelligence services. These were described by the Secretary-General as “crucial” to stabilising Libya.

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29. April 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Libyen verhindert US/EU-Bombardierung kommerzieller Fluchthilfe-Milizen · Kategorien: Europa, Italien, Libyen · Tags: , ,

Libya Herald | 29.04.2017

Libya refused international requests to strike migrant smuggling militias: GNA Foreign Minister Siala

By Sami Zaptia

Presidency Council / Government of National Accord (PC/GNA) foreign minister Mohamed Siala has admitted that Libya had received ‘‘international requests’’ to carry out ‘‘military strikes within Libya against militias’’ engaged in smuggling illegal migrants. But Libya had refused, he stated. Siala was speaking in London today during the recording of the BBC Media Action’s Hiwar Mushtarak (Joint Debate) programme for the BBC Arabic service. The episode, which follows a Question Time format of panelists answering a live-recorded studio audience, was debating the issue of Libya’s illegal migration.

The foreign minister, who was one of the panelists, conceded that Libyan militias were behind the illegal migration trade and that the international community knew exactly who they were and where they were based. They also knew their Thuraya satellite phones and listened to their calls. However, he said that Libya had ‘‘refused’’ to grant international requests to strike at them within Libya in order to ‘‘save any further Libyan bloodshed’’. Answering a number of searching questions from a majority-Libyan audience, Siala insisted that Libya ‘‘would not be Europe’s policeman”. Europe had “to accept its responsibilities. Libya must not defend Europe’s borders’’. He also suggested that Europe, rather than Libya, should pay for the proposed sophisticated electronic southern border security system. Weiterlesen »

28. April 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „A Nigerian’s nightmare failed bid to migrate to Europe“ · Kategorien: Afrika, Europa, Libyen, Mittelmeer · Tags:

BBC | 28.04.2017

This year alone over 40,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean, many of them are Nigerians. The BBC’s Martin Patience has been to Nigeria’s Benin City where many of the migrants start their journey.

It was the most difficult decision Kelvin Imasuen ever made – he would risk everything in a bid to reach Europe.

„I just had the belief I would get there,“ he told me, sitting outside his mother’s dilapidated home on the outskirts of Benin City.

But he was to learn the cost of the dangerous journey in the most devastating way.

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28. April 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Nadadora siria que atravesó Mediterráneo y compitió en Río, embajadora ACNUR“ · Kategorien: Griechenland, Türkei · Tags: ,

La Vanguardia | 27.04.2017

Ginebra, 27 abr (EFE).- Yusra Mardini, la joven nadadora siria que huyó de su país y alcanzó las costas europeas atravesando a nado el Mediterráneo y que en 2016 participó de los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro ha sido nombrada embajadora de buena voluntad del ACNUR, la Agencia de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados.

„Para mí es un honor ser representante de los refugiados del mundo y ser la más joven embajadora de buena voluntad de la historia del ACNUR. Estoy agradecida de esta oportunidad y de esta tribuna“, dijo Mardini en rueda de prensa.

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27. April 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für EU ratlos: Kein Plan zu Boat People aus Libyen in 2017 (Reuters) · Kategorien: Europa, Italien, Libyen · Tags: ,

Reuters | 27.04.2017

Libya lacks plan to prevent more migrants crossing to Europe – EU officials

By Robin Emmott and Tom Körkemeier | VALETTA

Libya’s U.N-backed government has no clear plan to help prevent more migrants reaching Europe’s shores this summer, European Union officials said on Thursday, citing confused requests for equipment to patrol its shores.

Libya’s newly trained coastguards lack a strategy on where to deploy or how to detect and intercept smugglers, officials told Reuters. They based their analysis on two documents prepared for EU defence ministers meeting in Malta, which lies on the route to Italy along which thousands of people drowned last year.

The confidential EU assessment contrasts with the upbeat message the bloc has promoted after training 93 Libyan coastguards since late last year to tackle smugglers as the bloc scales back its plans to go into Libya’s territorial waters.

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27. April 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Erri De Luca: Seenotrettung Ostern · Kategorien: Hintergrund, Italien, Libyen · Tags: , ,

Il Fatto Quotidiano | 26.04.2017

Ong, il diario di Erri De Luca dalla nave Msf: “Io sto con questi pescatori di uomini che salvano migranti nel Mediterraneo”

di Erri De Luca | 26.04.2017

Alle 6 di mattina a 18 miglia dalla costa libica Pietro Catania, capitano della nave salvataggio Prudence di Medici Senza Frontiere, mi fa vedere sulla carta nautica tre gommoni segnalati in partenza nella notte dalle spiagge di Sabrata. Alle 6 di mattina hanno raggiunto le 8 miglia di distanza. Inizio il turno di avvistamento al binocolo. Il radar di bordo non basta a segnalare un’imbarcazione bassa, fatta di gomma e di corpi umani. Sull’altro bordo di prua Matthias Kennes, responsabile di Msf, sorveglia il rimanente pezzo di orizzonte. Si vedono le luci della costa, l’alba è limpida. Passano le ore inutilmente.

Veniamo a sapere che i gommoni sono stati intercettati dalle motovedette libiche e costrette al rientro. Avevano raggiunto le 15 miglia, perciò fuori dal limite territoriale delle 12, che sono in terra 22 km. Potevano lasciarli stare. Sono già condannati a morte se fanno naufragio entro il limite, dove non possiamo intervenire. Li riportano a terra per chiuderli di nuovo in qualche gabbia: non tutti. Uno dei gommoni trainati si rovescia. Affogano in novantasette. Quando si tratta di vite umane, le devo scrivere con le lettere e non con le cifre. Ventisette invece sono ammesse alla lotteria della salvezza. A bordo della Prudence era tutto pronto. Restiamo con i pugni chiusi, senza poterli aprire per raccogliere. Guardo il mare stasera: disteso, pareggiato a tappeto. Non si può affondare senza onde. Bestemmia al mare è affogare quando è calmo, quando non esiste alcuna forza di natura avversa, tranne la nostra. Siamo coi pugni chiusi. Non soffro il maldimare, ho imparato da bambino a stare in equilibrio sulle onde. Non soffro il maldimare, ma stasera soffro il male, il dolore del mare, la sua pena d’inghiottire da fermo i naviganti. È creatura vivente il mare che i Latini chiamarono con affetto Nostrum, perché nessuno potesse dire: è mio. La nave in cui mi trovo vuole risparmiare al Mediterraneo altre fosse comuni. Rimaniamo al largo un giorno e un’altra notte di veglia.

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26. April 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für »Ich fühlte mich erst mal hilflos« · Kategorien: Italien, Libyen · Tags: , ,

Junge Welt | 26.04.2017

Jeden Tag versuchen Flüchtende, von Tunesien und Libyen über das Mittelmeer nach Europa zu kommen. Seenotretter tun ihr Möglichstes, ihnen zu helfen. Gespräch mit Thomas Kunkel

Von Claudia Wrobel

Sie waren am Osterwochenende als Seenotretter auf dem Mittelmeer und sind seit Anfang der Woche wieder in der BRD. Besonders die Ostertage entwickelten sich auf See dramatisch, viele Flüchtende, die versuchten von Libyen nach Italien zu kommen, sind ertrunken. Doch bevor wir über die Situation an dem Wochenende reden, schildern Sie uns doch bitte den normalen Einsatz als Seenotretter, damit wir ein Gefühl dafür bekommen, was an diesen Tagen anders war.

Im vergangenen Jahr war es bei Einsätzen der Sea Eye nur einmal nötig, Menschen an Bord zu nehmen. In der Regel liefen diese Einsätze so ab, dass die Sea-Eye-Besatzung die Boote gesichtet hat oder Positionen durch das Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centres, eine Art Rettungsleitstelle, in Rom durchgesagt bekommen hat. Wir sind hingefahren, haben Rettungswesten verteilt, die Menschen mit Wasser versorgt oder medizinische Ersthilfe geleistet. In aller Regel standen aber nach wenigen Stunden andere, größere Schiffe zur Verfügung, die diese Schiffbrüchigen aufgenommen haben. So etwas hatte ich persönlich auch erwartet, als wir uns am Gründonnerstag auf den Weg machten. Die Ereignisse haben sich aber drastisch verändert. Wir mussten am Osterwochenende von dem Konzept, das Sea Eye e.V. bis dahin gefahren hatte, permanent abweichen.

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26. April 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Más de un centenar de inmigrantes rescatados en cuatro pateras frente a las costas de Almería“ · Kategorien: Algerien, Marokko · Tags:

El Diario | 25.04.2017

Salvamento Marítimo ha rescatado a 23 hombres y dos mujeres de una patera localizada a 42 millas al sur de Almerimar, en El Ejido (Almería) en una jornada en la que, en total, han sido atendidas 105 personas que se encontraban frente a las costas de Almería a bordo de cuatro infraembarcaciones que partieron a primeras horas de la mañana de las costas de Marruecos.

La cuarta embarcación de la jornada –la tercera de la tarde– fue avistada por el avión Sasemar 101 a las 16,42 horas, sentido en el que se dio aviso a la Guardamar Polimnia para que acudiera en su búsqueda una vez que ya había socorrido a otras 62 personas, entre ellas 13 mujeres, de dos pateras que se encontraban a unas 40 millas al suroeste de la capital almeriense.

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25. April 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Sixteen migrants drown making Turkey-Greece crossing“ · Kategorien: Griechenland, Türkei · Tags: ,

BBC | 25.04.2017

At least 16 people have drowned in the narrow strait separating Turkey from the Greek island of Lesbos, say authorities and the UN.

Two children were among those whose bodies were recovered.

There were two survivors, including a pregnant woman. The survivors, from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, said there had been between 20 and 25 people on board.

Hundreds of people have died since 2015 trying to cross from Turkey to Greece.

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