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A staggering total of 7018 migrants and refugees arrived in Lampedusa last week. Most of them are Sub-Saharan migrants who departed from Tunisia, where the current political situation leaves them with almost no other choice but to flee the country.
„Green rubber boat. 40 people on board, no life-saving equipment!“
During one of my recent monitoring flights onboard the aircraft “Seabird” operated by the search and rescue organization Sea-Watch.org in cooperation with the Humanitarian Pilots Initiative, we spotted a migrant boat in distress […]