‘Some 150,000 migrants are believed to have reached Europe by sea to date so far in 2015, with virtually all of them landing in Italy (74,947) or Greece (75,970), according to the International Organisation for Migration.. .’ read more on Migrant Report, by Mark Micallif
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Photo of the day: The dark side of the moon – from a boat in the Mediterranean Sea © Jason Florio
Press: ‘Rare photographs document the rescue of hundreds of migrants’ (by MOAS) – Foreign Policy Magazine
‘For the media, it can be a difficult story to cover. Drownings in remote ocean locales are not places that reporters and photographers can reach easily or rapidly. All too often, the boats they seek to find are lost to the depths before anyone can arrive. So the images the world sees of theContinue reading “Press: ‘Rare photographs document the rescue of hundreds of migrants’ (by MOAS) – Foreign Policy Magazine”
Youtube: Night rescue of boat migrants, off the Libyan coast © MOAS_eu/Jason Florio
Published on May 9, 2015 © MOAS.EU / Jason Florio – All rights reserved Three migrant women intoxicated by fuel fumes are taken onto the merchant vessel Orient Green by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) search and rescue team. They were aboard a rubber dinghy carrying 104 migrants (predominantly Gambians, from West Africa) whoContinue reading “Youtube: Night rescue of boat migrants, off the Libyan coast © MOAS_eu/Jason Florio”