MSF suspends Mediterranean migrant rescues
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By Staff Writers, RT
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Sunday, Aug 13, 2017
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Saturday it was suspending its migrant rescues in the Mediterranean. "We are suspending our activities because now we feel that the threatening behaviour by the Libyan coastguard is very serious ... we cannot put our colleagues in danger," the president of MSF's Italian arm Loris De Filippi told Reuters.
Almost 600,000 migrants have arrived in Italy over the past four years, the vast majority setting sail from lawless Libya in flimsy vessels operated by people smugglers. More than 13,000 migrants have died trying to make the crossing.
MSF operates one rescue ship in the Mediterranean, the Prudence, currently docked in the Sicilian port of Catania. (Reuters)
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