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Responding to the crisis in Ukraine in February 2022, MOAS initiated a comprehensive program providing emergency medical care and first response services. With a fleet of 50 fully-equipped ambulances, our skilled teams of 150 medical professionals have saved over 40.000 lives on the frontline and more than 28,000 in communities cut-off from ...
The Valletta Summit on Migration, also called the Valletta Conference on Migration, [1] was a summit held in Valletta, Malta, on 11–12 November 2015, in which European and African leaders discussed the European migrant crisis. The summit resulted in the EU setting up an Emergency Trust Fund to promote development in Africa, in return for ...
A view towards the Mediterranean from Malta. In September 2014, it was announced by the International Organization for Migration that a ship sank off the Malta coast on September 11, 2014, killing around 500 migrants. [1] [2] There were eleven survivors. [3] [4] The ship left Damietta, Egypt, on September 6 and sank five days later on September 11.
They are considered a "taxi service for migrants" by Italian Minister of the Interior, deputy prime minister and leader of the far-right anti-migration party La Lega Matteo Salvini [3] and have been denied entry to Italy and Malta. [4] They work in partnership with Doctors Without Borders. SOS Méditerranée clashed with Libyan coastguards ...
The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) [1] [2] is an agency created by European Union Regulation 439/2010 within the area of freedom, security and justice framework to increase the cooperation of EU member states on asylum, improve the implementation of the Common European Asylum System, and support member states under pressure.
GENEVA (Reuters) -Countries and businesses at a major U.N. forum pledged more than $2.2 billion towards a global displacement crisis and promised jobs for tens of thousands of refugees in an ...
[39] [40] The prime minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, called the 19 April shipwreck the "biggest human tragedy in recent years". Aydan Özoğuz, the German minister for immigration, refugees, and integration, said that emergency rescue missions in the Mediterranean should recommence as more migrants were likely to arrive as the weather turned ...
[2] [3] [4] An emergency response involving the Italian Coast Guard resulted in the rescue of 155 survivors. [3] On 12 October it was reported that the confirmed death toll after searching the boat was 359, but that further bodies were still missing; [ 5 ] a figure of "more than 360" deaths was later reported.