ocean viking

• Italy

The NGO-operated migrant rescue ship Geo Barents has been released from the Sicilian port of Augusta. It had been impounded by the Italian coastguard last month, citing technical irregularities.

• Malta
• Italy
• Libya

The two NGO rescue vessels "Ocean Viking" and "Sea-Watch 3" now carry a total of more than 800 people on board, all of whom were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend.

• Germany
• Italy

The Red Cross has said its teams would join the crew of the Ocean Viking rescue ship from next month; it also launched an emergency appeal for funds. Meanwhile, German charity Sea-Eye has announced it will sell its search and rescue vessel Alan Kurdi to the new Italian organization ResQ.

• Libya
• Italy

The Ocean Viking arrived in Sicily on Friday morning to disembark over 500 migrants it has on board. The crew and migrants had been waiting for a week to be assigned a safe port. Food and water were about to run out when they were assigned a port on Thursday evening.

• Malta
• Libya

The humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee has rescued a total of 572 migrants and refugees in Maltese and Libyan waters in recent days. Their vessel Ocean Viking is now looking for a port to disembark the rescuees, as further boats continue to depart from North Africa.

• Sudan
• Libya

Bilal*, a Sudanese migrant in Libya, knew victims of the April 22 shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. On that day, 130 people are believed to have died at sea as a result of the failure of Libyan and European maritime rescue services as well as complicated weather conditions. After the tragedy, Bilal spoke with InfoMigrants.

• Libya
• Italy
• Germany

Migrant aid groups, the Pope and the UN have denounced the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean which likely claimed the lives of 130 migrants. Libya's coast guard rejected allegations of not doing enough to help.

• Italy

After several days at sea, the 116 migrants rescued by the Ocean Viking at the end of last week and over the weekend have disembarked in the Sicilian port of Augusta. Six persons tested positive for COVID-19.

• Malta
• Italy
• Libya

Up to 60 migrants are feared dead after a shipwreck on Thursday, March 18. The organization Alarm Phone has tried to reconstruct what happened and has spoken with survivors. Its report was released on Monday.

• Libya
• Italy

The private rescue ship Ocean Viking is carrying 116 rescued migrants on board in the central Mediterranean following two separate rescues. The crew say they have sent requests for docking and are waiting for a place of safety in order to disembark the migrants soon, as storms approach.

• Italy

What happens to migrants who are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea and then brought to shore in Italy? InfoMigrants explains the procedure of fingerprinting, compulsory health quarantine, and the steps that follow.

• Côte d’Ivoire
• Mali
• Sudan

Sicilian authorities have now reported 49 positive COVID-19 tests from the group of 422 migrants who disembarked the Ocean Viking on Monday and Tuesday this week.