Migrants aboard the Ocean Viking read articles on their odyssey, August 21, 2019.

Wind of Panic on the Ocean Viking: “They Want to Send Us Back to Libya! “

A furious rumour has swept the humanitarian boat, Ocean Viking on which 356 migrant survivors are found, testifying to the mistreatment they received in Libya A misunderstanding sowed a panic Wednesday 21st August 2019 aboard the Ocean Viking. A communication error made 356 survivors waiting for a port of landing think that they could be sent back to Libya. Read also: Ocean Viking: […]

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Ocean Viking: France ready to welcome migrants but not the ship

Ocean Viking: France Ready to Welcome Migrants but Not the Ship

The last humanitarian ship, Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean is still waiting in the Sicilian channel for a port where the 356 survivors on board, some of them for 12 days, can land. France is ” ready ” to welcome “a significant number of migrants” present aboard the Ocean Viking, but maintains its refusal to receive the ship because it must be […]

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The ship of the Proactiva Open Arms NGO off Lampedusa in Italy on August 17, 2019.

Open Arms: France Agrees to welcome 40 migrants, ship still stuck

The French government said it was ready Sunday 18th August, 2019 to accommodate 40 of the hundred migrants stranded on the humanitarian ship off Lampedusa. France has pledged to welcome 40 people of the hundred migrants currently stranded on the Open Arms, the ship of the Spanish NGO Proactiva off Lampedusa, announced Sunday 18th August […]

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Migrants: Malta refuses refueling Ocean Viking humanitarian boat

Migrants: Malta Refuses Refueling Ocean Viking Humanitarian Boat

The successor of Aquarius, the Ocean Viking, chartered by SOS Mediterranean and Médecins sans Frontières, must rescue migrants off the coast of Europe. The Maltese authorities refused Wednesday 7th August 2019 full of fuel to the humanitarian ship Ocean Viking of SOS Mediterranean and Médecins sans Frontières, announced on board AFP the head of relief operations to […]

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