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Jun
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Spanish charity rescues 117 migrants sailing from Libya

Spanish charity rescues 117 migrants sailing from Libya

NEWS
SPANISH charity Open Arms said it rescued 117 migrants on Saturday crowded onto a precarious wooden boat from Libya in the latest such perilous crossing over the Mediterranean Sea. Last week's shipwreck off Greece, killing at least 78 among hundreds packed onto a fishing boat, has shone a light once again on the deaths of thousands of migrants each year fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa and the Middle East. Open Arms said in a statement that it had picked up 117 people on Saturday, including 25 women and a three-year-old boy, mainly from Eritrea, Sudan and Libya. The rescue operation…
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Jun
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Dozens of African migrants rescued after boat runs aground on Spain’s Lanzarote

Dozens of African migrants rescued after boat runs aground on Spain’s Lanzarote

NEWS
BORJA SUAREZ MORE than 40 African migrants were rescued after their boat ran aground on the rocky coast of Lanzarote in Spain's Canary Islands, emergency services said, while over 100 people on two more boats made it safely to other islands. At least three people died and at least two more were missing, including a six-year old girl. Rescue workers with a helicopter were searching the coast around Lanzarote's northern region of Muelle de Orzola for them on Friday morning. Local resident Marcos Lemes, who was first on the scene and alerted emergency services, told Reuters he had begun,g people…
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