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Migrants rescued by a ship chartered by NGOs disembark in Sicily and are taken care of by the authorities. The Ocean Viking, chartered by SOS Méditerranée in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), rescued 114 people on December 16, including minors and two newborns who were on an inflatable boat in distress in international waters off the coast of Libya. IMAGES
The Ocean Viking humanitarian ship disembarks more than 230 rescued migrants, more than half of them unaccompanied minors, at an Italian port. Representing 15 different nationalities, the migrants had been stranded on two overloaded dinghies in international waters off the coast of western Libya before their rescue by the Ocean Viking. IMAGES
Supported by the Moonbird plane, the German NGO Sea-Watch says it rescued 363 migrants trapped in the Mediterranean Sea between the 26th and the 28th of February. IMAGES of rescue operations
On board the Ocean Viking, off the shores of southern Europe, tension is mounting among migrants rescued at sea. Some 118 of them fled Libya and were rescued five days ago by the SOS Méditerranée aid ship, which is circling waiting to be assigned a port of disembarkation. IMAGES
Spanish humanitarian ship Open Arms arrives off the island of Lampedusa with 147 migrants on board, after a judge in Rome suspended far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's decree banning them from Italy's territorial waters. IMAGES
The charity ship Sea Watch 3, which is carrying 47 rescued migrants, docks in the Sicilian port of Catania, where the crew feared legal action as Italy's far-right interior minister tries to stop new arrivals. IMAGES of Sea Watch 3 entering the port of Catania