Leading non-governmental organizations SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have announced that their migrant rescue ship Aquarius would resume patrolling the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya
Leading non-governmental organizations SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have announced that their migrant rescue ship Aquarius would resume patrolling the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. The humanitarian groups insist their duty is to rescue migrants attempting to reach Europe from Libya and to stop more migrants from dying at sea -- even if Italy's new populist government has banned foreign NGO ships carrying rescued migrants from docking, or even refueling, in Italian ports this summer. Unsafe and overcrowded vessels run by human traffickers continue to attempt the dangerous crossing carrying mostly poor and desperate migrants from Africa or the Middle East.
