Unhcr: first transfer of 172 asylum seekers from camps in Libya

• Crotone, 88 migrants saved on a sailboat that ran aground off the coast

• Migrants: 800 migrants on Sea Eye 4 towards Lampedusa

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05 November 2021 "Today I am so happy. I feel reborn because I will live a dignified life." Yakeen, a young Sudanese refugee leaves detention and mistreatment in the camps in Libya behind her. She talks through tears as she gets off the plane that landed in Niger with others 172 asylum seekers. "This is the first evacuation flight to Niger in over a year, which marks - explains UNHCR Libya - the recovery of lifesaving flights from Libya and bring hope among the most vulnerable refugees."

"We see at last - he says Tarik Argaz, spokesman for UNHCR Lybia - a real moment of joy for some of the refugees living in Libya. Many remain in dire conditions in the country and need urgent assistance or evacuation ". “I will have freedom-says Yake- I will have shelter. I will make all my dreams come true. "

Freedom. Dreams and a shelter are words written on the faces of those who in these days, but not only, challenge the sea at any cost. Like the 93 Maghrebi immigrants who were on board two boats about 100 kilometers south of Gran Canaria last night, rescued by the Guardamar Concepcio'n Arenal ship, of Salvamento Maritimo. On board the first there were 30 men who tell the sailors had been at sea for a week. In the second there were 63 men. Everyone is reaching, the port of Arguineguin, in Gran Canaria.

Sixty-nine people, including 10 women and 18 minors on a boat in trouble due to the rough sea were spotted and rescued by the teams of the Ocean Viking of Sos Mediterranee. Sea Watch's Seabird aircraft sounded the alarm in the afternoon, when the boat was in international waters off Libya in the afternoon. Now, after the fourth rescue, there are 314 people on board the NGO ship.

After this last rescue, 1100 people off the coast of Lampedusa aboard two NGO ships asking to disembark. Nineteenth century on the 'Sea-Eye4'. The pressure on the Sicilian coasts is strong, after the double rescue in the night between Wednesday and Thursday by the ship of Sea-Eye and Mission Lifeline: more than 400 migrants rescued: they were on a boat that had a big leak. Several people were in the water without life jackets and were rescued. The evacuation and transfer to 'Sea Eye 4' were completed after midnight. More than 800 are now on the rescue ship located off the coast of Lampedusa. "We ask that the Italian authorities immediately assist the 800 aboard Sea Eye and guarantee their disembarkation in a safe harbor", asks Mediterranea saving humans.

"The rescue of about 400 people - says Alarm Phone - took many hours and many people fell into the water. People should not be forced to risk their lives to reach Europe". "Even in recent days there are rescue interventions at sea, NGO ships loaded with migrants, it is right to save these people, it is unfair that only one country, ours, should take charge of them, only because it is the first landing place". Thus the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, speaking at the Interior Ministry at the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding that allows the arrival in Italy of 1,200 Afghans in need of international protection through humanitarian corridors.

On the night of October 27 last year, Doctors Without Borders' Geo Barents arrived in Palermo with 367 migrants.

And a sailing boat with 75 migrants on board, including four children, ran aground on the Crotone coast and was at the mercy of the force 4 sea waves. In fact, a very strong wind had been blowing in the area for some hours, up to 20 knots, which made it difficult for the men of the State Police, the Coast Guard, the firefighters and the Red Cross to rescue migrants.