{"id":59892,"date":"2020-01-27T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T05:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59892"},"modified":"2020-01-27T13:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T05:03:58","slug":"german-charity-sea-eye-says-78-migrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59892","title":{"rendered":"German charity Sea-Eye says 78 migrants rescued off Libyan coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailygamingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/German-charity-Sea-Eye-says-78-migrants-rescued-off-the-Libyan.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dailygamingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/German-charity-Sea-Eye-says-78-migrants-rescued-off-the-Libyan-696x464.jpg\" alt=\"German charity Sea-Eye says 78 migrants rescued off the Libyan coast\n\n\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BERLIN, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German charity Sea-Eye said it had rescued 78 migrants off the Libyan coast and accused Libyan authorities of harassing rescuers and acting illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alan Kurdi, named after a Syrian child whose drowning in the Mediterranean in 2015 brought global attention to the migrant crisis, received distress calls and rushed to aid migrants stranded on two boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our ship #ALANKURDI rescued 62 people from an inflatable boat in the morning. Water was already entering. Among them are 8 women and 7 children, the youngest just six months old,&#8221; a Sea-Eye statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The #ALANKURDI found the second boat in distress and rescued another 16 people. Three people are severely dehydrated and were immediately taken to the on-board hospital for medical treatment,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The self-proclaimed Libyan coastguards treat the area of search and rescue operations as their territorial waters, harassing civilian rescuers and giving illegal instructions,&#8221; Johanna Pohl, the head of operations on the Alan Kurdi, said, according to Sea-Eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alan Kurdi has been active since 2018 and has rescued hundreds of people so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi&nbsp;in 2011 turned the country into a key departure point for African and Middle Eastern migrants heading to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of the year, as many as 1,100 migrants have left Libya by sea, according to the International Organization for Migration, adding that a majority had been sent back to the country and detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the behest of Italy, Libya&#8217;s coastguard routinely blocks migrants from reaching Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rights groups charge that Libya picks up migrants in the Mediterranean and brings them back to overcrowded detention centres, where many have been victims of abuse and forced labour. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German charity Sea-Eye said it had rescued 78 migrants off the Libyan coast and accused Libyan authorities of harassing rescuers and acting illegally. The Alan Kurdi, named after a Syrian child whose drowning in the Mediterranean in 2015 brought global attention to the migrant crisis, received distress calls and rushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}