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A commercial ship that picked up 30 migrants in distress at sea is “heading to Malta”, according to an NGO that tracks migrant crossings in the Medi
Does Neville Gafa live in the Libyan embassy? 5 hours ago Neville Gafa was “operating under Libyan jurisdiction” when he ran Malta’s legally questionable migrant pushback scheme. He was also ‘working from home’ and his car, not at a desk in the OPM. No one’s favourite hot potato seems to believe he’s living inside the Libyan embassy — a slice of sovereign territory that belongs to another country — rather than Mellieħa. He admitted he got his orders from the OPM, but said, “My role was never inside Maltese territorial waters but in Libyan ones, so that jurisdiction appli...
Image: Hokyoung Kim for NPR Stuck on a stalled motorized inflatable raft in the open sea, 15-year-old Tsedal began to panic. She and the other passengers, more than 60 migrants from the African countries of Eritrea and Sudan, had set off from neighboring Libya, where their lives had become unbearable. They were trying to cross more than 100 miles of the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. Repeated distress calls brought no help. The passengers were suffering from dehydration and sunstroke. Two babies on board cried with such anguish that Tsedal could feel their wails deep in her chest. "Every...
The Italian coastguard began a search for survivors Saturday after a vessel carrying migrants capsized off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa overnight. Off
Image: Hokyoung Kim for NPR Stuck on a stalled motorized inflatable raft in the open sea, 15-year-old Tsedal began to panic. She and the other passengers, more than 60 migrants from the African countries of Eritrea and Sudan, had set off from neighboring Libya, where their lives had become unbearable. They were trying to cross more than 100 miles of the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. Repeated distress calls brought no help. The passengers were suffering from dehydration and sunstroke. Two babies on board cried with such anguish that Tsedal could feel their wails deep in her chest. "Every...