{"id":8636,"date":"2018-03-10T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T03:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8636"},"modified":"2018-03-10T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T03:30:23","slug":"libyan-coastguard-rescue-50-nigerian-migrants-enroute-italy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/libyan-coastguard-rescue-50-nigerian-migrants-enroute-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Libyan Coastguard rescue 50 Nigerian migrants enroute Italy\u00a0on Mediterranean Sea [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\">\n<div class=\"single-related\">\n<div id=\"jp-relatedposts\" class=\"jp-relatedposts\">\n<div class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-minimal jp-relatedposts-list \">\n<p class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post4\">No fewer than 50 Nigerian migrants were among the hundreds of\u00a0migrants rescued today in the Mediterranean by Libya\u2019s coastguard and an international charity, Doctors Without Borders (MSF).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Nigerians were aboard a boat with 110 migrants. They were rescued by\u00a0<em>Aquarius<\/em>, a ship being operated by MSF,\u00a0 21 miles from the coast west of Tripoli. The ship will deliver the migrants, who included 18 women and one child, to Italy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-860x800 size-860x800 wp-post-image aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.premiumtimesng.com\/wp-content\/files\/2018\/03\/The-Nigerian-migrants-among-those-rescued-by-MSF-today-e1520698405630.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The Nigerian migrants among those rescued by MSF\u2019s ship Aquarius today. Photo credit: MSF<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"top-middle-outer\">\n<div class=\"entry-content manoj single-add-content\">\n<div class=\"single-related\">\n<div id=\"jp-relatedposts\" class=\"jp-relatedposts\">\n<div class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-minimal jp-relatedposts-list \">According to Reuters, more than half the migrants on that boat were Nigerians, with the rest from other sub-Saharan African countries as well as two Palestinians.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>(Watch the 19 sec. video posted by MSF:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicolacois\/status\/972492129594499073<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicolacois\/status\/972492129594499073\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header u-cf\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-brand u-floatRight\">\n<div class=\"Icon Icon--twitter \" title=\"View on Twitter\" role=\"presentation\">The Libyan coastguard vessels also\u00a0intercepted two of the migrant boats, the first an inflatable dinghy that had broken down with 125 people on board off Zawiya, just west of the capital, Tripoli, said Ayoub Qassem, a coastguard spokesman.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The second boat was turned back off Garabulli, east of Tripoli, and had 112 people on board.<\/p>\n<p>The migrants and their\u00a0 smugglers were trying to take advantage of calm seas as they launched a flurry of boats towards Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the coastguard in Zuwara, a former Libyan smuggling hub west of Zawiya, said they had foiled a departure during the night and arrested some migrants whilst others had escaped with smugglers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular\">\n<div class=\"gallery-row\">\n<div class=\"gallery-group images-1\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/261361-video-50-nigerian-migrants-rescued-way-italy.html\/attachment\/the-migrants-at-sea-along-with-the-msf-rescue-teamright-e1520698823510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The-migrants-at-sea-along-with-the-MSF-rescue-teamright-e1520698823510\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.premiumtimesng.com\/wp-content\/files\/2018\/03\/The-migrants-at-sea-along-with-the-MSF-rescue-teamright-e1520698823510.jpg?zoom=1.25&amp;w=600&amp;h=400&amp;crop&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"(Watch the 19 sec. video posted by MSF:\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The coastguard posted pictures of detained sub-Saharan African migrants sitting in an inflatable rubber boat on the beach in the dark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<p>Libya is the main departure point for migrants attempting to reach Europe by sea. More than 600,000 migrants have crossed the central Mediterranean to Italy over the past four years as people smugglers took advantage of a security vacuum in Libya.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since last summer the rate of departures dropped significantly after smugglers in the Libyan town of Sabratha struck a deal with the Tripoli government to halt their activities and were then pushed out of the town by rival armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Libya\u2019s EU-backed coastguard has also stepped up interceptions, often cutting migrant boats off before they can reach international vessels that would bring them to Europe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than 50 Nigerian migrants were among the hundreds of\u00a0migrants rescued today in the Mediterranean by Libya\u2019s coastguard and an international charity, Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The Nigerians were aboard a boat with 110 migrants. 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